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TOWN AND C SOME DEMONSTRATION DEPARTMENT 3HSS CARO TRULUCK, County Agent.. '??-'c The toll owing summary of the past three months work done by tSe 'county home demonstration ?&nt. Miss Caro Truluck, is of in terest. .*. . ? rSfee has girl's clubs at Stateburg Nor 10, Graham, Concord, Brun sen, Jordan, Baker, Dalzell, Os ^ejgo.Pinewood and Wedgefield. Th?y are 11 in number with an enrollment of IIS. There are S ?rfomen's clubs with . an enroll ment of 93 members. All of these clubs are taking selected courses df*;-study and meet regularly every month." She has held 71 meetings with an attendance of 726. Visited i^* schools and 159 club members. Traveled 1,453 miles in the interest of Hoe work. yiiiss Truluck writes as follows about the various lines of work t?tat are being carried on: 'Cooking and sewing clubs are held with the SSrlsv-'The sewing lessons have been ijard, but interesting. The girls have finished up their first articles. Mothers and teachers have said that they wish girls could have had sixeh opportunities in their day. TWo women's clubs have had fancy ^east breads. I found among them -ml?iy." new: housekeepers'who were entirely ? unfamiliar with yeast breads. The^e were anxious to get all:tce help they could. The wo men have been very much intreest ed/in hat making and renovating lessons. Before each lesson I ?92Bit-stores and-see if anything netv ISas-come in and also' go to five and ten cent stores, so as to report on i materials to be had there. Thej fwnen stay late and take turns in 'Steading close by so that they can j see every stitch. They are most j grateful for the ilelp I can give. " ? Dress forms are as popular as ] nwilinery among the women's clubs; ^d the women are loud *in their praise. ' The poultry work is going for ward nicely. Tfeere are four poul try associations that have had ies sbns. There is greater interest in j&ultry now than ever before. At MayosviDe-the lessons in basketry have been well attended, the house being . filled with workers i each ^Dairying and miscellaneous work j have also received attention* from the* agent Mrs. S. 6. Pl?w?en, District Agent. &r ?-' ? ?r . ~- The Ladies' AuxSBaryy. ; On Monday, afternoon the Ladies' Auxiliary held a. meeting of great aroimse?. both as to attendance and -the-spirit of interest that was man ifested. Mis3 Haynsworth, accom-j panied by Miss McLeod, gave a lovely selection in their usual tal ented way: Miss Brunson's recita tion "Jim Dog," a soldier's dog, was very appropriate and beautiful ly presented. After the heated dis cussions of the business session ?ght refreshments served "in a bot ?e tbru\a straw" were "cool, re freshing, delicious." The president Whose home is some distance from the city, expressed regret that she found it impracticable to keep tiie office longer, and her resignation.J jwas reluctantly accepted. A new ?sideht will be elected at the meeting to be held the third Monday in June. 'As the name implies, the pur-j jp?se of the Ladies* Auxiliary Is to: "?gand behind the American Legion; and to render first aid at .every possible opportunity. When sick, out of work, or in trouble .of any 3ort, the boys will find in the aux iliary a trusty friend. At present, tiie club rooms which have been secured over Barnett's store need to be equipped and a committee -^as appointed to help get these fixed up.. i We want our organization to. be large." strong, and powerful. But the. mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters of tthe returned soldiers ?re unable to join until they become .'members themselves of the Ameri can Legion. We hope, therefore tnat all the boys who have neglect ed to do so, will join the Legion j now and give their ^families the! privilege and honor of member-j ship in the auxiliary. ?"? ? 'Red Cross Meeting ffk meeting of the Sumter Chap-! tre, American Red Cross, will be held* this afternoon at 6:15 at the Girls' High School for the purpose of electing a Chairman and discus sing, means whereby the affairs of the chapter may be put upon, a sound financial basis. \ The program will be as follows: .Ouartette Kipling's Recessional Mrs. Lynam, Mrs. Lee, Mr. Moore ?Sffr- Butler. Talk by Miss Ellis, Field Repre sentative of the Southern Divis : ion, American Red Cross. Reading: In Flanders Field * Miss Sophia Brunson. Talk by representative of the Am erican. Legion. General Discussion. Election of Chairman. This meeting will not last more than one hour. The subjects to ?be discussed are of importance to every citizen of Sumter and Sumter eounty, and a large attendance is "hoiped for. Representatives of the Cotton Growers Co-operative Marketing ?Associations of Sumter. Clarendon and Williamsburg counties met in the Court House at L o'clock Tue* day to nominate two candidates for a director of the state asso ciation to represent this district. The election will be by ballot of 'members?return postcard ballots v being sent to all members. The nominees were: -W.. C. Davis of Manning and L. D. Jennings of Sumter. The one-elected-will meet with the directors from other dis tricts in Columbia, June 13th to n*>rfeot the state orcrnnizntinn. O?NTY NEWS COTTON THIEF CAPTURED Two Negroes From Claremont Section Attempted to Sell Two Bales of Stolen Cotton Two young negroes who at tempted to sell two bales of cotton to Mr. Ewing Gibson Wednesday morning aroused suspicion by their conduct and the contradictory ?stories they told when questioned, and when it became evident that they were in a fair way to be ar rested they- attempted to escape. At the time they were in Barnett's store, and they made a dash through the back door. One ran in one direction and the other an other. One got away, and although pursued by citizens and rural po licemen, has not yet been apprer hendecL The man , captured was identified as Frank Blanding of the Claremont section, although ?he stated at first that his name was Kehdrick.' The other negro said his name was J5ammie Johnson, but he may aliso have assumed a name for the purpose of engaging in the cotton business. Blanding is held in jail and every effort is being made to capture his . partner in crime. The thieves, in their flight abandoned a wagon and pair of mules as well as the cotton. The cotton was identified as the property of Mr. P- C. Emanuel, of the Dinkins Mill section. The cot ton was stolen on the night of May 23rd, i:he thieves removing it from, thei* house in which it was stored and rolled it across an oat field for quite ? distance to the point where they had a wagon waiting.' There have been-several, other cot-j ton robberies in the same section of the county within recent months, and it is suspected that < there is a gang engaged in the business. ? ? ? ? ? - - : RED CROSS HOME SERVICE . . .. The Red Cross meeting held Tuesday afternoon was very poor ly attended. ?_ Those interested in the organization had hoped that a large attendance would be the re sult of the wide publicity that had been given to the work of the chap ter and to its necessity. The gen eral public, however, as in the past, left to the few the burden of the work. Mr. L. D. Jennings, who f?r years has been chairman recently resigned. At the meeting-Tuesday after declining to . again accept the position, he at length yielded to repeated urgings and finally con sefHed to serve again. A delegation present from the American L#egion pledged the active support of the Legion, moral, financial and in work. A resolution was passed asking the county commissioners to con tribute liberally to the support of the work, as the work done among the needy directly saved money to the county, as well as preventing further future costs. The Home Service department devotes its energy to the investigation and al leviation of suffering among the people of the coutyt it also spends'. a great deal of time helping ex service men fill out the numerous papers that are" necessary in mat ters taken up.with the govern ment. A resolution was passed asking the banks to contribute to this fund, also asking the bank presidents to solicit funds from time to time as opportunity presented. An active canvass for > funds will soon be made. At the meeting yesterday a quar tette sang "Lest We Forget," Miss j Sophia Brunson read In Flanders ! Field: remarks were made by Miss Ellis, field secretary of the Red Cross: Mr. Hammond Bowman, Mr. Geo. Levy, Mr. Joe Chandler and others. Highway Bids Opened. The Sumter County Permanent \ Highway Commission met in the j office of Chairman Jennings Wed- ; riesday to open bids submitted by j contractors on the construction of hard-surfaced roadways on the j Sumter-Camden-Stateburg road, on i the Wedgefield-Pinewood road and ! for grading on another section of j the Sumter-Camden road. There j were six or eight bids submitted by as many construction companies, which were opened by the commis sioners and turned over to the engi neers to determine ? which of the number was the lowest and most I advantageous to the county. The i commission then adjourned until [afternoon to give the engineers time j to inspect the bids and make a re i port with recommendations at the j afternoon session. There has been some discussion j of the sale of another block of j highway bonds, for the purpose of [providing funds for continuing the ? road construction immediately up ; on the completion of the contracts i that are now under way. This prop ' osition was not considered at the ! morning session, but may be taken ' up in the afternoon. & ? ^ The canning factory is proving ? a boon to those who planted beans ; for shipment to the northern mar ; kens, but are now not able to obtain j prices that will pay the cost of i production. The canning factory j is burying the beans in bulk and paying more per bushel than offer j ed on the northern markets during j the past week or ten days. A canning factory cannot afford to i pay fancy prices for beans fcr other j truck and does not pretend to com j pete with the northern markets ! that pay almost any price for extra ! early truck, but it does and will j furnish a stable market for the ar ! titles that it can:-. There is a mar gin of profit in growing truck for ; the canning factory, if the farm ers know how to produce an aver ; >i;r,. yield GAS RATE CASE ON APPEAL Attorneys Representing the j Sumter Gas Co., and City of j Sum ter Go to Richmond Mr. R. O. Purdy, of Purdy and Bland, of this city and Mr. G. L. B. Rutledge, of Charleston, of counsel for the Sumter Gas & Power company, and Messrs. R. D. j Epps, A. S. Karby, B. D. Hodges and I>. D. Moise, of this city, rep resenting the city of Sumter, left Wednesday night- for Richmond to appear before the United States court of appeals in the case of the Sumter Gas & Power Company vs. the City of Sumter, which was .taken on appeal from'the decision of Judge H. A. M. Smith in the United States District Court for the j Eastern District of South Carolina. The case involves the question of rates to be charged by the Sumter Gas & Power Company. Mr. E. E. Austin, Superintendent of the Sum ter Gas & Power company, also went to Richland Wednesday night. Nominees for Director Marketing Association. For the benefit, of those who are j eligible -to vote for a director for the ninth district composed of { those who signed the Cooperative Cotton Marketing agreement inj the counties of Sumter, Clarendon! and Williamsburg counties, the following sketches were prepared by the undersigned committees ap pointed by the convention, held in [ Sumter nominating Messrs. L. D. | Jennings of Sumter and Capt. W. C. j Davis of Manning as candidates for ! the position of director in the as- j sociation to represent the ninth j district. * ; L. D. Jennings,'born in Sumter bounty fifty-one years ago. He is j the leading attorney of the Sumter j bar, mayor of Sumter and presi- j dent of--the Peoples' Bank of Sum-j ter with capital stock of $100,000.) He is also connected with mercan-j tile interests. Mr. Jennings was a leader in raising funds for' prose-1 cuting-the war. He was one of ? the prime movers in having the j, streets of Sumter paved, and help- i ed to secure the bond issue in Sum ter county for hard surfacing roads . in the county. He is also chairman of the board for expend-! ing the two and a half million fori building these roads. He farms sixteen hundred acres of land about four hundred of which is planted in cotton. He is the owner of the i Jennings Du roc Hog breeding! farm, one of the largest and finest; breeding plants in the south. Mr. j Jennings was president of Cotton f Association, and took active part | in ' organizing the Marketing As- j sociation; i Capt. W. C.Davis is about fifty three years of age, is the leading j attorney of the Manning bar, has j been connected with farming all of j his business life and "is now con-! ducting considerable share crop ! farming. He is president of the j First National Bank of Manning.! He took an active part in all kinds j of war work activities, and drives j for raising funds. Capt. Davis is | chairman of the commission tpr'\ expending four hundred thousand I dollars in building special highways j in Clarendon county. He was for i two years "president of the Cotton Association and took an active part; in organizing the present Co-oper- J ative Cotton Marketing Associa- ? tion. _ J. FRANK WILLIAMS, I J. M. WINDHAM, D. E. McCUTCHEX, Committee. ! Winthrop Daughters Scholarships, j The Sumter Chapter of Win- j throp Daughters has awarded the j scholarship it supports at Win- j throp to Miss Sarah Till who has I made such a splendid record in her j school career. In the eight years j since the chapter established the ; scholarship this is the first time it has been awarded a town girl and the motion for this award and the second were made by members from the county. The chapter is truly a county chapter and doing ] county work. Nearly eighty dollars were made j by the chapter-this year/ in its an- i nual sale of ice cream dtfring Chau- | tauqua: but a great deal more must j be had before college opens next I September. The former value of j the scholarship. $100 is not suffi cient for a student these days and so it is planned to increase the value from now on. To this end a | story telling entertainment for lit- j tie children is planned for Friday I June 2. Another plan for June is | a reception to be given by the chap- j ter in honor of this year's graduates | from Sumter at Winthrop. The j date for this has not been an nounced. Entertainments for Mrs. Home, j Misses Theo and Lily Gregg en- j tertained Thursday afternoon in honor of their niece, Mrs. R. C. Home. Jr., of Beaufort. There were four tables of bridge. Mrs. Graham Moses won top score and was given a piece of Madeiro linen, j The consolation was won by Miss j i Mattie Hix. Ices and cake were J served. Those present were: I Mesdames R. C. Home, Jr., Hen-j i ry Witherspoon. Willie Phillips, [Graham Moses. Roddy, Frank Mc jLeod. Rob Williams, Hal Harby, I Horace Harby. Baynard Yeadon, i J. H. Morse, Andrew Jackson, j Francis Bultman. J. W. Krunson, j j Misses Mattie Hix ami Clara Jor-I j dan. I Misses Theo and Lily Gregg en-| ! tertained at a card party Thursday j morning in honor of their niece, Mrs. K. (\ Horm*. Jr., of Beaufort, j There were four tables of bridge. ; Mrs. Raymon Schwartz won the i ! prize for top score, a lovely tray ? cover and the consolation was won j by Mrs. Ed. TIsdale. Ices and cakes i were served. Those present were: Mesdames R. C. Home. Jr.. John j Lee. Riley Brad hum, John Riley. '?Mack FJoykin, Pringle Brunson, Gus Sanders. 1-iri- Tisdaler "Lynch ! Deas. Rob. McLeod. Hay Schwartz, Wehdel Leyi, Willard Court right, [Misses Louise: and Wartha Williams. COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Meeting to Be Held Tuesday, June 6th, to Make Prelimi ary Arrangements for t}ie County Campaign ? * The members of the County Democratic Executive Committee have been notified to meet at the Court House at . 11 o'clock a. m. Tuesday, June 6th for the purpose of arranging for the county cam paign, fixing assessments that the candidates shall pay, arranging for the enrollment of voters and for the transaction of any other busi ness that may properly come be fore the meeting. The club enrollment books have been received from the secretary of the State Executive Committee and will be delivered to the Execu tive Commitfeemen. representing the several clubs of the county at the meeting on. the 6th. Are Tour Cows Profitable or Un profitable? Clemson College, May 30.?Many South Carolina farmers are just starting in the dairy business, and the closer they follow orthodox business methods the greater will be their success. Starting right will make success easier. A business man ? who, is successful always knows the status of- his business, that is whether each division of the business is netting him a gain or loss. So it should be with the dairy farmer. He should know whether each cow he owns is pro ducing: enough milk and butter-fat to show him a profit or loss above feed cost. To know this he needs only a milk scale, which can be purchased for about $4.00, a milk sheet to enter the weights at each milking, and a book for entering records, says I. R. Jones, assistant dairy husbandman. ? A sample of milk should be Rest ed once per month. A fair sample should be an average of 2 to 4 milkings, at least of one morning and one night milking, since cows .vary in test much more in morn ing and night milkings of the same day than in corresponding milkings of different days. The milk should be thoroughly mixed by pouring from bucket to bucket before sampling. A one-half pint sample is sufficient. Any creamery, ice cream factory, vocational agricul tural high school or the state, agri cultural college will usually be glad to do this, testing. The own er himself can easily learn to test once' he gets a Babcock tester. The pounds of mill* for the month multiplied by the test gives the pounds of butter fat. The feed cost can be figured at the prevailing market price. A profi table cow should produce not less than 6,000 pounds of milk or 200 pounds of butterfat in 300 days. Bishopvillc News Xotes. Bishopville, June 1.?The recent rains have been a great draw back to the farming interest in this section, though I see very little grass. Most of the early planted oats have been saved, the late oats are not yet ready. The oat crops are generally very good. Corn is looking well. Cotton is backward, and the boll weevil doing his work faithfully. Labor is plentiful and at moderate prices. Mr. Clifton Josey, a respectable citizen of this county, took his own life this morning at his home above here. Financial troubles are said to have caused the rash act. He had bought heavily of land, at the prices that prevailed two years ago. and his mind was unbalanced. The Confederate reunion at Dar lington last week was a grand success.- Everything done aod given free, to make the old veterans have a good time. And they were quite successful. Darlington vied with Sumter and Camden to see which could excel in honoring the venerable old men who made such sacrifices for their country and each succeeded so well it is difficult to decide which was the most suc cessful?enough to say we all had a most delightful time. Hope we will be spared to have as good time in Florence in 1923. To many of us it was a happy reunion. Prob ably it is the last time many of us will ever meet on this earth. Our camp (Lee) which was organized twenty years ago with 85 members, has been reduced to twelve, and many of those too feeble to attend the reunion. - Miss Clarke of Johnson is visit ins her sister, Mrs. Edgar Wood ard. Mr. Jake Shuford. who went to Florence six weeks ago, has return ed to his home. We all hope the operation will prove a success. The young folk who have been off at schools arc returning home for their vacation. Our pastor. Rev. W. V. Dibble, who has been assisting in protract ed meeting in Orangeburg, return ed home last Saturday, much to our delight. ' Business in our town seems to be improving. 1 hear of very little sickness in our midst. Mrs. T. E. Hinson, Jr., of this city is a daughter of Rev. Vincent Davis, superintendent of the ! Richland county alms house, who was killed Sunday morning by ! John Croker. The other children j of Mr. Davis are: Claude P.. Frank ! G-.. Lawrence and W. B. Davis of j Columbia: G. P. Davis, Congaree: J. H. Davis, Columbia; Miss Flor ! rie Davis and Miss Marie Davis, j Congaree und Miss Sallie Ellen Davis, Columbia. County Treasurer 5??Ua?| gp I been busy the pa*i few w... I ing receipts for property owners j who wished to take advantage of ;th<> last opportunity to pay their state and county taxes before the books are closed for the payment of 1922 taxes. The books close j this afternoon and the executions will be written up by the treasurer to be delivered to the sheriff on September 1st. The costs and a penalty of 8 per cent will be added to the taxes when the sheriff makes colled ion. HOOVER FIXES COAL PRICES I Secretary of Commerce An | nounces Maximum Prices Allowed in Five Districts Washington. May 31.?Maximum ! fair prices for spot coal in five I districts were announced tonight I by Secretary Hoover after reaching I agreements with committees repre I senting those fields, under the plan I adopted at the general conference of operators from producing fields I for preventing runaway prices on j coal at the mines during the/strike. I It was determined that in, the j Alabama district the fair price should be 25 cents below the. "final Garfield scale" or a maximum of j $2.20 a ton to $2.60 a ton. i Oh the Harland and Hazard field* of Tennessee and Kentucky, and I the Pocahontas, New River, Tug i River aad Winding Gulf coal fields f (smokeless coal districts of West I.Virginia) the maximum price wc* j fixed at $3.50 a ton. Costs of production have been re | duced in the Alabama field since i the final Garfield scales were de termined. Mr. Hoover explained. The operators, he said, emphasized that the price set was a maximum: that anyone might sell below it, and that long contracts for coal are necessarily below* the levels set j j today. In the other districts, he j j declared. ' production costs have j j increased since the Garfield j 'scale and that scale included con-, j tract coal which now sells below I new maximum. The operators are I to absorb a reasonable selling ex j pense at the new prices. Secre tary Hoover said. * 1 Fair prices for the ? remaining fields which are producing during the strike are to be fixed tomor row after conferences between Mr. Hoover and committees represent- j ing those districts' which were ap pointed after the general meeting today. The plan adopted at the general meeting calls for agreements be tween Mr. Hoover and the different committees upon fair prices for coal at the mines in their respec tive districts. based upon the Garfield scale as modified by local conditions. Moral suasion will be relied upon by Mr. Hoover to keep the agreements in force for the j duration of the strike, it was 'indi ! cated. New York, May 31.?Independ ent coal operators in New York, particularly owners of- nonunion mines, showed little enthusiam to j day for-the Hoover plan to sup i press profiteering during the strike by mutual agreement to keep down j prices. - The tenor of their com } ment was that the '*hands off' poK j icy adopted by the administration* j early in the strike when it refused j to warn the public of the impend I ing shortage should now, be^main tained. o ? ? Sumter County Rural Carriers Meet.. The regular annual meeting of the Rural Letter Carriers' Asso ? ciation of Sumter county was held in the court house here Wednes i day. A large and enthusiastic crowd of carriers attended. Many good talks were heard and much business transacted. S. -M. Mel lette was elected president of the association for the ensuing year, aaid D. G. Lenoir, secretary-treas urer. The following were elected i delegates to the state convention to j be held in Gaffney, August 14-15: ;S. M. Mellette, >J. M. Parker and ! M. M. Mellette. j The Santee bridge and causeway: ! a.t St. Stephens and the Wateree I j bridge at Garner's Ferry are both ! j well underway and wilL be com-1 j pleted and opened for traffic with- ! j in the year, it is said, therefore it \ 1 is about time to renew the cam- i paign to develop interest in the j j proposed bridge and causeway at j I Pinckney Landing, on the Santee, j below Summerton. This project] had the_ approval of the State; highway commission, at one time, i but the St. Stephens and Garner's! Ferry bridges were* regarded as more important and the funds1 i available were allotted to these un- j dertakings. The crossing at Pinck- j ney's Landing would be of great service to the people of Sumter,! Clarendon and all the other coun ties to the North Carolina line, and also to Orangeburg, Calhoun ! and the section westward to the Savannah. A crossing at this point! j on the Santee would materially re-1 j duce the distance to Charleston and j Augusta for travelers from sections j north of the crossing and would be I j valuable to Manning, Sumter and ; Orangeburg especially. Death; I Friends of Mrs. F. B. Bradford j j were grieved to learn of her death j j which occurred at her residence on j I West Liberty street shortly after i j 11 o'clock Wednesday morning. Al- j though in poor health for the past year or two, she was apparently feeling well up until Monday morn ing at which time she was striqk- j en with paralysis and lay in an un- j conscious state gradually grow-! ihg weaker until the end came. ! Mrs. Bradford who was one of the I old residents of Sumter county was ?? j born at Privateer in 1S36 and spent j the early years of her life at that place and Wedgefield, later moving ! j to Sumter where she has resided j i for the past ten years. She was a j J widow, having lost her husband I about seven years ago. Those who j ! knew her will remember her as a j ! devoted Christian lady of quiet j j Unanners and cheerful disposition. I j She was a member of the Grace j ' Baptist church which she attended1 ? regularly until ill health prevented, j I The surviving children are Mrs. I Ada Wheeler, Mrs. W. D. Carnes j j and Mrs. Aretas Bradford of Sum- | i ter, and Mr. R. F. Bradford and ? j Mrs. It. H. Brad well of Florence, i Interment will h<- held at Beth - el Church. Privateer, Thursday at 4 p. m., leaving the home on W. Liberty street at 3 p. m. "Is your skin an annoyance?" I asks an ad. Well, no: we are glad j to have something we can occupy ' w it bum paying reut. i DUKE FORMS NEW TOBACCO COMBINE United Retail Stores and To bacco Products Corporation Consolidated With Capi tal of $157,000,000 ? Xew York, May 30.?A new to- I bacco merger, representing a com-1 bined capitalization of $157,000,000! involving the United Retail Stores corporation and the Tobacco Pro ducts corporation, was announced tonight by James M. Dixon, presi- j dent of the Tobacco Products con cern. The United Retail Stores corporation, by stock ownership, controls the United Cigar Stores corporation. James B. Duke, founder of the American Tobacco company and the British-American Tobacco corpor ation, will be the guiding head of the merged company. Under the terms of the propos ed consolidation, declared a report given out tonight by the Tobacco Products corporation, that concern is to increase its capital stock from $33,000,000, par value, to $157, j 354,000, par value. "The increase in the capitaliza tion of Tobacco Products is merely sufficient to take care of the ex change of the'two companies," said [the statement. "The merger, therefore, is without stock in j increase. The/ new stock to be is | sued by the Tobacco Products cor i poration is to be composed of two j classes! one 'A' and the other com j mon. Class 'A' i$ to be 7 per cent, non-cumulative, in which dividends are to be paid soon, after the com pletion of the merger. The com mon, it was said, will receive a divi Idend of not less than 5 per cent. ! for the coming fiscal year, begin - I ning July 1, 1922. That belief is j based on the "present earnings of the corporation and on an estimate of the increased earning capacity which will be the outcome of the combination of the two companies. "The proposal'To the" stockhold ers of each company is an exchange of their holdings of common stock in each corporation for one-half share of class 'A' of the new 7 per cent. Tobacco Products stock and one-half share of the new com mon, for each one share of the present holdings of the common stock. The option, however, is ex pected to be extended to the stock holders of both companies of taking jail common stock of the new merg er in exchange for the common stock of the present corporation." No shareholder in either corpora ation, the statement said, is com pelled to make the exchange but may ignore the merger. ? "Holders of Reatil Stores who do exchange," continued the report, "will obtain a certain return of 3 1-2 per cent, and a bonus in com mon stock that is expected to yield an additional 2 1-2 per cent," It was announced that owners of a large number of shares of the Tobacco Products corporation have approved the proposal for the in creased capitalization and that the proposal would be voted on at, a special meeting; of stockholders to ; be held in Richmond, Va., June 28th. I Mr. Dixpn, present head of To bacco Products, will be president i of the new concern. It is ;unoffi | cially understood that the new j merger will enable Charles A. jwhelan, chairman of the board of j directors of the United Cigar Stores, j to retire from the-active manage I ment of that'concern. Mr. Duke, [ whose return to the tobacco trade I has long been predicted by Wall [ street, is a director of' the United [Cigrar Stores. Thomas B. Yuill. ! formerly associated with Mr. Duke, will join the new board as the ad visory head of the leaf tobacco buying department. < ? ? ? Dinner for Veterans. ! Invitations have been issued all i the Confederate Veterans in Sum f ter county for a dinner to be given I them by Dick Anderson Chapter j U. D. C. This dinner is usually in ; celebration of the birthday of the ; only president of the Confederate I states, Jefferson Davis, June 3rd; [ but this year the dinner will hot j take place until Tuesday, June 6. j The Veterans are asked to assera I ble, Tuesday, on the "court house I grounds, at 12:30 o'clock^ All the i Confederate Veterans are urged to : accept this invitation. . There are said to be many thou sands of bushels of corn in the j hands of Sumter county farmers ! and that they are anxious to turn I this farm product into cash. At ! the same time it is reliably stated I that corn is scarce and difficult to ! obtain on this market, local deal [ ers having little?some none?on , hand when buyers apply. There is I estimated to be a sufficient sur i plus of home grown corn in Sum I ter county to supply a large part i of the needs of the county, and if I this be true, there is no necessity I in bringing in western corn. [ There should be found some means of bringing together the farmers ! who have surplus corn for sale j and those who are in the market to buy corn. Sumter needs right now marketing organizations that will handle corn and other farm pro ducts, so that there will be a cash I market for corn, oats, hay, etc., ! whenever the farmer has any no sell. The time seems opportune for the Chamber of Commerce mem bers, the Young Men's Business League, the Committee of Pro gress and others interested in the welfare of Sumter to get togethei*. iind create a working and efficient organization that will foster and support some practical agency for betterment of business and. es pecially the marketing facilities of this town. The great difficulty is not in the production, but in the conversion into money of farm products of almost unlimited va riety. There will never be absolute equality between the sexes until wc have a bit of. melody entitled: "Here comes the groom." - ? * ? ? Two heads are not better than one if they both ache. A iio? her horror of a war in China i> pronouncing the names. PARENTS AS "The Child's First School Issued by the National Kindergart? New York City. These articles are Companionship By Katheri Too much cannot be said con cerning a real companionship be tween parents and children. I em phasize the "real." Those fathers and mothers who have practiced this companionship through their children's unfolding years seem al most to hold them in the hollow of their hands. Those fortunate young j people simply do not want to do the things which would grieve or distress the ones they love best, and! in addition are so, well equipped: with vital interest in ,the better and i finer aspects of life that the less desirable makes no-effectual appeal. I have seen this happen over and over again, and one mother of five splendid children said it was as certain as that two and two made four. Given his real companion- j chip by their parents and a mutual [sharing of the best things in home, r books, music, art, nature and hu manity during eighteen or more i plastic years and children are ! bound to turn out well. This sort of companionship is no casual or haphazard thing. The parents who ^realize its value and mean to have it at any price are willing to pl?y, really play with their babies?V to keep on ? playing with the little ones, to give hours of time to the older ones, and to live - on such friendly terms- with their children from the beginning! that spontaneity, originality, initia I tive and enthusiasm are never re j pressed. Tender love", real living sympathy with the child's point of view, active ^participation in what ever interests him, doing things to gether, these are. the precious se crets of .those parents whose chil dren when grown are still their dearest friends. ? It is from the first a question of being willing to pay the price. When one sees on every hand boys and girls whose friends and interests are all outside of home, who seem entirely at liberty* to choose their own occupations and amusements and inclined to select those which are not . only'questionable but of ten desperately dangerous, and coiv trasts them with-those others of whom -we have been speaking, one j is forced to- conclude .that; many i parents have [ purchased self in-1 dulgence for* themselves at a ter-j fible -cost. " "Where are:?tbeir par-! ehts? - What are4hey thinking ojC?" | How often do we-hear this said to-] day as we gaze -upon- the <girl& and boys who are orir the streets* in*the j restaurants',4t the shows, in the au-1 tomobiles; as we reads the horrors j Government Wins In Railroad Cas$ Supreme Court Orders ? Dis solution af Ownership^ Central 'Pacific and South ernrPa^fic Must Split Com bine ^ ? ? ??. Washington, May 23.?Dissolu tion of ownersnip and control of the Central Pacific railway by the Southern Pacific Company was or dered today by the supreme court in an .opinion delivered by Justice j>ay. The decision in the case which was the last Of the railroad mereger suite to be brought before the court, held that the two lines were competitive. Justices McRey nolds and Brandeis, because of their official connections prior to going upon the bench, did not par ticipate. Justice McKenna deliv-* ered a short dissent. The court directed that a decree be^ entered severing the control by the Southern Pacific of the Central Pacific by stock ownership or by lease. but in accomplishing that end. so far as'compatible, said the mortgage lien of the Union Ti*ust Company of New York should be protected. The several terminal lines and cut-offs leading to San Francisco Bay, which have been constructed or acquired during the unified con trol of the two systems for conven ient access to the bay and to the ! principal terminal facilities about 'the bay. should be dealt with, the I court declared? "either by way of I apportionment or by provisions for j joint or commpn use. in such man I ner as will secure to both com panies such full, convenient and ( ready access to the bay and to ter minal facilities thereon that each i company will be able freely to com? 1 pete with the other, to serve the public efficiently, and to accom-" j plish the purpose of the legisla tion under which it was con strued." A like course should be pur sued. Justice Day added, "in deal-' ingr with the lines extending from San Francisco Bay to Sacramento and to Portland, Ore." The case had been started in the courts since February 11. 1914. when the United States asked the United States District Court of Utah to restrain the two railroads, the Union Trust Company of New York and the directors and offi cials of the Southern Pacific under the Sherman Anti-Trust and the Pacific Railroad Acts. The United States asserted that the lines of the two railroads constituted com petitive systems, and asked that the ownership acquired by the Southern Pacific of a controlling interest in the Central Pacific be deelared unlawful. A minute review of the history of the two railroads was given by Justice Day leading up to what he termed "the outstanding facts" of the physical operation of the two railroads. "The, Central Pacific with its Kastero connection at Ogden forms one great system ?>f transportation EDUCATORS is the Family"?FroebeL ' n Association, 8 West 40th Street, appearing weekly in our columrc. With Children ne Bee be. in. our daily papers, as we listen to * tales of disgrace and disaster. It does not matter much where * they are now. It is too late. Their great chance is gone for good and all. But years ago these parents were spending hours upon them selves which should have been pass ed in companionship with their-*-, children. What would they not give now for that companionship and the influence which can* be - bought only at that price! ^ But, oh, you fathers and mothers of little children, don't let your, opportunity slip! NowN is your great chance! Fill the golden ' hours of your children's early years with all sorts of work, play, pro jects, excursions, reading and stttdy^ together. Live with your children. It was long ago that Fro bei cried, "Come, .let us live with our CM1 drenT' and never was his reason for* so doing so clear to our minds in these latter days. Do not say that you- are too busy, or that the labor of providing food and shelter for them prevents. Let them share, according to their years, in the family work," the family responsi bilities and even the family income.* Remember- that companionship* means participation. You can makjn work a frolic or' an .unwelcome drudgery to them: it is forvvou tpV choose. All depends on the spirit. in which the necessary things- are done. Even be thankful that your means are ^stricted, for then your problem wil! be a simpler one than if you had. all the money you wish you had. Necessity is an able.as-re sistant, to any sort of teacher, and besides it is you the children want. rather tha^f the things you think 5 ?U would like to give them, -rr?:- ) ' "Whatever first attaches to the tender age * of children, whether, good pr bad, remains' most firmly fixed, so that throughout life it may not' be expelled by any after ex pression."-?Comenius. - . ' What a crime we are committing, > in the name of economy, when we leave our little children to their own caprice, ^tp the influence of th? . streets,.and td s evil companions; at an age when their life impressions are being-fon$ed. Every child has ? right to the training in industry, honesty, and fair play which the kindergarten provides. For information and.ad ice as to how to establish" akin ;rgarten, write to the National indergarten Association, 8 West ?0th Street, New York City. . ? V ' : between-the East and the West,"-, the; opinion1 stated, "and the South ern Pacific with its roads and con nec'tiens-and steamboat'fines, forms another great transoontinental syjj- ... tem of transportation from coast ^ to coast. Xhe , CjMitral Pacific con stitutes same 8?<J miles of tTscs^ ' continental - line ^of which it is a. part. The Southepi' Pacific system, has practically it^fown line of rail roads and Iteamhsat connections to Now Yoj;fcfvia G^Tveston and New Orleans.** \ r . . . ' ' ? The acquisition of the Central. ^ Pacific stock by the Southern Pa cific was hed to be unlawful un der the opinion of the court- in the Union Pacific case "unless justified * by ?ie ,??9$^ |ircumstances re Jied ^pofe' foY^hat purpose, but the dburt after analyzing the spe cial circumstances., discarded them as not justifying the control. The. present case did not differ from the Union. Pacific case at all in principle. Justice Day asserted, the only difference being, in the Central Pacific and Southern Pa cific: acquired a-competitive system ^ of 800 mil<% in length, whereas * in the Union Pacific the eompetinf system absorbed, was 1,000 miles in length. Reviewing previous railroad mer ger decisions. Justice Day asserted the court, had "collectively estab-. lished" m these that "one system^ of railroad transportation can not acquire another, nor a substantial .-; and vital part thereof wh??n the ef fect of such acquisition is to sup-' 4 press or materially reduce the free and nornml flow of competition in the channels of interstate trade." Retail Merchants' Association* Columbian May SO.-^July 25-27 are the dates for the state conven tion of the South Carolina Retail ^ Merchants' Association, according to announcements made today by L. H. Wannainaker, secretary pf the association, who returned yes terday from Greenville, where ho held a conference with J. W. Kirkpatrick. president of the asso ciation, regarding plans for the convention. Mr. Wannamake? states that he will make announce ment at an early date of an out standing authority on mercantile organization who will address the convention. The association f ex pects an attendance of several nun- i dred merchants at the convention. There is not the accustomed cry from all sections of the county concerning rainy weather ?nd grass. Thus far not a correspond ent has mentioned "Gen. Green and ^ his advancing hosts." and their neglect to make use of the oppor tunity that the recent wet weathe* has offered seemed unexplainable. 4 until it was remembered that the boll weevil has so reduced the tot ton acreage ihat the average farm er does not fear getting in the 4 grass. - ? Let us be_thankful for masculine styles that permit us to wear last summer's tattered underwear with out sharing the secret with the vorld.