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LIST OF THE I TEACHERS OF - CITY SCHOOLS Teachers Not Yet Assigned to Different Grades For Next : Year At a recent meeting of the City Board of Education the teachers "yhose names are given below ap plied for- re-election and were re elected for the next school session. Tfiepe.'.teachers have not yet been assigned to the different grades Or^tyen^their specific work: Mrs. M. B. Warren, Miss M. G. R?ndle, Miss Abbie Bryan. Mrs. L. RL. Williamson, Miss Bertha Creighton, Miss Agnes Hannah, Miss Josephine Hannah. Miss Clara 3<$?an, Miss Maggie Marvin, Miss Maria Michaux, Miss Carrie Rod ney, Miss Juenelle Williams, Miss L. H:. McXally, Miss Bertha Hasty, Mrs. L. R. t Hoyt, Miss Eunice hong, Miss Mary S.. McCauley, 3ft?ss S. H. Rembert, Mrs. O. W. Rumph." Miss Sophia Branson, Miss L. C. McLaurin. -Miss Kath arine Moses. Miss Jennie S. Doar, 3iSi3s Ruth Harrington, Miss Nancy Carroll, Miss Helen Pulli?, Miss Bessie Meares, Miss Julia Rey nolds, Miss Sue Stoll, Miss Isabelle Williams, Miss E. S.^ Hepburn, Miss Charlie Cassell, Miss Margaret Shaw, Mrs. E. H. Roper, Miss Lucy Wilson, W. H. Dargan, W. H: Bowman. H. F. Duncan, B. Lv Williams. Strange-Burnett. Cupid brought another con quest to a happy climax in the marriage of Miss Annie Strange to Mr. Alva Burkett which delightful event came as a surprise to their many friends, the ceremony tak ing place at the Salem Baptist* parsonage Sunday night, June ifcth, at 9 o'clock, Rev. E. W. Reynolds, pastor of the bride, pro nouncing the solemn words that made this young couple man and wife.. The bride was very becom ing in a going away suit of mid night blue. --Immediately after the ceremony ^fc/and Mrs. Burkett left for Co lumbia. Charleston' and other points for a ten day bridal-tour. On their return they will be at -home to. their friends^t 413 W. Bartlette .St. ' . Mrs. Burkett, as . Miss Annie Strange, will be remembered by hjer. host of friends for her many lovely traits of character, she hav ing heJd. for some time a responsible position, with the local branch of tfte Efird's Department stores. The groorn is a young man of splendid parts, a world war veteran, having spent eighteen - months in France m active sen-ice; he is now in the employ of the local firm of Ducker & Bultman, which position he has held ever since his return from overseas. A. host of friends and admirers wish for this young pair the fullest measure of happiness as they launch out upon the sea of their matrimonial venture. ? ? * Local Demand for Tobacco Hogs head*. ' .7 Hundreds of tobacco hogsheads r~]Sfll-be In demand beginning a*bout jlugust 8th when the tobacco mar kets open up. The Sumter Cham ber of. Commerce wants informa tion of any Sumter or Sumter opuiity- concerns that will under take to supply the local demand. Perhaps 2,000 or more will be needed and if any local establish ments- want to sell to the tobacco warehousemen, or to the Tobacco propers' Cooperative Marketing association it" will be well to see Secretary Reardon immediately and furnish him with prices on hogsheads furnished complete with covers. And if hogsheads can not be purchased on the local market and it becomes necessary to buy same at Other, points it might pay the warehousemen or the association to buy the leaves and headings and hoops on. local markets and build the.,,hogsheads at the warehouses as had been done for years in Sum ter. """There is a lot of local money to be made by some local concern going into this business and there wiH be thousands of dollars of out 3ide cash brought into Sumter from the numerous tobacco com panies and the local tobacco stem mery if Sumter or Sumter county concerns get the contracts either for flourishing hogsheads or hogs head staves and headings and hoops. Poisoned His Wife and XeJghbor. Washington, Ga., June 15?.?Dr. Saggus was arrested and placed in jail here late today pending a pre liminary hearing on charges of having poisoned his first wife and hi3 present wife's first husband. Charles Wilbanks. The physician came from his home at Harlem, near here and surrendered when he heard that a coroner's jury had returned a ver dict this morning charging him .with the deaths of the couple, which was followed by the issu ance- of murder warrants. Ar rangements were made to exhume both bodies. ' Tariff may increase the price of leather. This is tough pn restau rant steaks. ? ? ? Impossible Oeourences No. 1. Mrs. Henpeck: "Oh. Henry: see What wonderful ankles that wo man has." "Capital cannot long-stand nloof from labor." Which is to say that capital cannot long stand a loaf by labor. In the vocabulary of these clev er young men, ?ny man is a "hick" who doesn't shoot a good gazno of pool. HOME DEMONSTRATION DEPARTMENT >ass CARO TRULUCK, County Agent. Schedule for Week June 26-30. Monday?Lone Oak H. D. C. Tuesday-?Salem Poultry Assn. Wednesday?Stateburg H. D. C. Thursday?Brunson Poultry.. Friday?Miscellaneous. Saturday?Office. Woman's Council Meeting. The Sumter County Woman's Council will hold its regular quar terly meeting Saturday afternoon at 4:30 at the Sumter Creamery. All home demonstration and oth er women interested in the prob lems of the farm woman are invit ed to attend this meeting. Report from the State Council of Farm Women, which held a meeting in Rock Hill last week, will be given, and some addresses made. Through t the courtesy of the creamery and ; the Stateburg Home Demonstration j Club a social hour will be held and an opportunity for seeing through the creamery given. The meeting [promises to be: instructive and in-: : teresting and we hope that many will take advantage of this. 4-H Brand S. C. Fig Preserve Re cipe. $ quarts figs, j 4, lbs. sugar, ! 2 quarts water, j Scalding solution 1 C baking: soda. I 6 quarts boiling water. Preparation. Select firm, sound ripe fruit: ! I discard all over-ripe or broken i ; ones. Sprinkle one cupful of ba-! I king soda over the selected figs and j i cover with six. quarts of boiing wa- j I ter. Allow them to stand 15 min- ' I utes, drain off the soda solution j I and rinse the figs twice in clear cold j ; water. Drop in clear water (boil-j i ing) "and let boil until tender, then j I wash in cold water. Mix sugar and I two quarts of water: boil ten min j utes and skim. Add cooked figs j gradually to prevent cooling the i syrup. Cooking: Cook preserves in an [ enamel lined vessel over a hot fire j as rapidly as possible in order to make the finished product clear and of good color. The fruit should be covered with the syrup during jthe entire time of cooking to pre vent the top layer of figs from (shrivelling before the finishing I point is attained. Cooling: When the figs are ! transparent, carefully remove them ' and place them on shallow trays or platters. If the syrup is not heavy enough continue boiling until it' reaches 222 degrees Fahrenheit. Pour the hot syrup over the figs completely immersing them arid allowing them to remain over I night or until completely cold. Packing: Pack the cold figs into ! sterilized jars, placing the figs so 1 that all the stems will be turned upward. Bring the syrup in which I the figs have been standing to the boiling point, strain and test to see if it is 222 degrees Fahrenheit, fill the jars to overflowing. Seal and | process at simmering point 180 de grees Fahrenheit, 20 minutes. Score for Preserves. 1. Fruit Flavor .-. 20 Texture -------------- 10 Appearance, color. 15 2. Syrup? Density .?.- 1? Clearness-10 Color _._- 15 3. Pack? Uniformity- 5 Freedom from bubbles __ _- 5 4. Containers? Standard-. -- ... --- *> Total.100 Miss Caro Trulack, home demon- j stration agent is arranging a very j interesting egg laying contest for j the Sumter county poultry and I home demonstration clubs to par- j ticipate in to begin early in July I and lasting four months. Records will be kept monthly! and four prizes awarded monthly, j the details of which will be given j out*next week. Prizes consisting of Purina Poul try Feeds and Alforcorn Poultry! feeds have been offered by W. B. ! Boyle Company and C. L. Strauss j and Company, respectively. All j women of the home demonstra- j tion and poultry clubs are eligible I and are urged to enter this contest.! Prizes will be awarded on the per- | centage production of the flock, thereby giving the woman with the small flock the same advantage as ( the owner of large flocks. ! $4,000.000 Campaign Fund Com pleted. j Buffalo. June 21.?Without pub ! licity or public appeal, the raising J of a fund of $4.000.000 to provide, j for the retirement of veteran Y. M. j C. A. executive* throughout Xorth i j America is nearing completion, it j was announced here today by A. H. j j Whitford. local Y. M. C." A." secre I tary and chairman of the fund | j committee. j It had been originaJIy planned I to close the campaign on January 1st. 1!*23, but indications are that the funds will have been fully sub scribed within the next two weeks. Secretaries will have the privil- j ege of retiring at the age of 60, i but may continue if they so elect. J Former secretaries are provided for j under the plan. Canada. Cuba and Brazil have made contributions to j the fund and association secre- ! taries there will share in its bene- : fits. The Rockefeller Foundation sub- ! scribed $1.000,000 to the retirement! fund, conditioned on the raising Of the $3.000.<?00 from other sources. New York state led with contributions of $231,245; Pennsyl- I vania was second, and Ohio third, j The bulk of the first $2.000.000 was j raised in New York, Chicago and j Cincinnati. j I Another Complaint About Pocalla Road All That *A Woman" Says About the Condition of Road is True, But It Takes Time to Build a Paved I Highway ~~ ' Sumter has one summer resort : and that is Pocalla. The bathing j and outdoor life which it affords i is a means of health and recre | ation for the entire community, j Pocalla is a great asset to Sumter county. At present the Boy j Scouts of Columbia are camping j there. j The road for a part of the way [ is almost impassable. The road [ was torn up and abandoned j months ago. while the building l was taken up at the other end. I Why is not a decent detour pro [vided? Is it a matter of cost? j The citizens of the county will pay lout in deteriorated automobiles more than it will cost to build the road. The* builders not only broke up the surface of the road, but j they left it full of holes, and it is [ a menace to life and limb to drive j over it. The farmers cannot have their stock and wagons driven through the slough without prac I ticing real cruelty to animals and [ Injuring their vehicles. If the com I missioners imagine that the people ! don't want to go to Pocalla the I answer is that they want to go so i very much, that there were seven I picnics there in one day. I Won't you please, Messrs. Com ! missioners, give us a detour at ! once, and also demand that the Pocalla road be built without fur ther delay? The Shannontown detour is about as bad as none at all. The whole county and "the visitors to Sumter are being very seriously in convenienced by the present condi tions. The" people of Sumter are long suffering. How much longer i3 their patience to be tried? A WOMAX. Interesting Meeting American Le gion Auxiliary. ?? On Monday afternoon the Amer ican Legion Auxiliary held its last meeting until fall in the Le gion club rooms. Miss Helen Wheeler from the Red Cross Home Service department made an in formal talk, giving a number of interesting facts and figures about the Red Cross. Miss Wheeler said that during the war the Red Cross had been made a permanent department of the government and only differed from its other branches in that it was supported by voluntary offer ings.. In 1921 there were 26.300 disabled soldiers cared for and an expenditure of $10,000,000 in their behalf. Not only distressed sol diers and their families received the care of the Red Cross but numbers of civilians in want were also assisted. The Red Cross has rendered active aid where storms, floods, fires, etc., have caused suf fering and loss and has spent in disaster relief $1,600,000. The Red Cross maintains a department of public health for the prevention and checking of unnecessary sick ness and disease and wages an un tiring campaign of education to wards their control. Another de partment of service has furnished aid in' clothes and food to the starving and needy people of Eu rope. The Junior Red Cross, composed of school children throughout the country, has done a splendid part in this phase of Red Cross service. Miss Wheeler said that in our county there were each month 85 to 90 applicants for aid from the government besides numerous oth er calls of need. As there is a great deal of red tape necessary in establishing these c'aims, each case demands considerable time and la bor, and often in the end the claim will be disallowed because the. information is insufficient and the proof is not considered con clusive. Miss Wheeler said that there were a number of instances where deserving applicants had be come discouraged at the delay and ceased to press their claims al though they were in actual need. I And as her duties are so full she does not always have time to fol : low up these cases. The auxiliary7 : felt that this was a case where ! they were able to rend'er a prac J tical service and every member ! present readily consented to look \ up a number of these applicants \ for Miss Wheeler, report the I status of their cases to her, and ; to help them in any way possible. At the business session the mat j ter of the American Legion Nat : ional scholarship prizes was dis cussed and it was decided to ask ! the pulpit, press, and picture show j to aid in presenting this opportun ! ity to the school children of the j county. For the best essay on 1 "How The American Legion Can j Best Serve the Nation." the Le ! gion is offering three prizes? I scholarships valuing $7.30. $500 : and $2f?0 good in any college in i the I'nited States which the win j ners may choose. The contest is open to every girl and boy in the country from twelve to eighteen [years of age. These essays must . not be over 500 words and must j be handed in to the local Legion 'posts not Inter than August 1, j 1922. t The matter of delegates to the 'joint meeting of the Legion and ; Auxiliary to be held in Florence ; in August came up. Several mem bers expressed a desire to attend I and it is hoped that we may have ia large delegation at the meeting j to represent us. Advice to Retailers Chicago. June 21.?The retail dealer would do well to imitate the j honey bee. Horatio Sawyer Earl said today in congress of the Nat : ional Retail Hardware Association here. He urged retailers to take the community into partnership and consider every person in the community a stockholder of your j company, and you. as a stockhold | er in every institution in the com I munity. FOR BOLL WEEVIL CONTROL ! i - Machines and Poisons Must Be Tested in Practice Be-; fore Endorsement Clemson College, June 19.?; Many manufacturers and inventors j of boll weevil machines and pois-1 ons are under the impression that j all ihey have to do is to bring! their products to Clemson College j and have them looked over and I that if they look right Clemson j will endorse them. Not so, says | Proir. A. F. Conradi. Entomologist j who advises that no poison or) other material or machines of any kind could he tested in such a brief time and in such a superficial manner, and that an endorsement; from Clemson College under such circumstances would not be worth ; the paper on which it were writ- j ten. A' material or machine may look | well and behave well in operation, i For example, a square picker may pick wads and peanut hulls, but that does not prove its efficiency as a square collecting machine under ; cotton field conditions. Such ap-: paratus must be tried systematical- j ly throughout the season and the number of additional pounds of-j seed cotton determined before we i are justified to judge with any! degree of confidence. Increased Yield Real Test of Merit. j A material may spray well and may stick like pitch to a pine tree, but that fact carries with it no as surance whatever that the mater ial has practical value in the cot ton field. It may kill weevils in j confinement or even in the field un- j der certain conditions, but what j I we want is additional seed cotton j at harvest time. "When any ma-j chines or materials prove their i ability to profitably increase seed i cotton. Then we will not hesitatej to endorse them. Parties desiring j to have materials tested must bear j in mind therefore that a carefully j j conducted rest requires some time, [ and that until the merits of a prop osition can be clearly determinedJ ; no endorsement need be looked for. CARE OF HOGS How To Prevent Mange, Lice and Wormjs At this time of the year hogs, usually do not look as well as they do through the fall and winter, due to lice, mange and worms. Any ; kind of oil, applied all over a hog will prevent lice and mange. The I other day while double treating ; Mr. Albert Brogdon's hogs, on see I ing a louse, he remarked," I shall j have to oil my hogs again; I can I not afford to feed lice." He said ! that it had been two months since j he had oiled them, and you could ! scarcely find a louse. The larger I the number of hogs kept in a giv en inclosure. the oftener it is nec essary to treat hogs for lice, ! mange and worms. It is needless to state that Mr. Brogdon's hogs I were thriving and doing well. ? < The following remedy should be I kept before hogs at all times: One i bushel of charcoal, one bushel of ! wood ashes, five pounds each of j salt and lime, four pounds of sul ! phur and two pounds of copperas, j The charcoal should be beaten i up,, and the copperas should be j dissolved and thoroughly mixed in [ with the other ingredinets. I find ; that it is usually the man that can ; least afford to feed lice and worms j that does mosr of it. A thriving j animal of any kind is easily kept ! thriving, and in no other industry I does the old adage, a stitch in time ; saves nine, prove so true as it does I in the livestock industry. J. Frank Williams, County Agent. TWO SUMTER STUDENTS WIN ! HIGH HONORS Two Selected for Honor Fra ternity at Virginia?Others Receive Degrees Two Sumter boys, Richard Ba ker and MacDonald Dick, were among the ten graduates in the , academic department of the Uni versity of Virginia who made the j honorary fraternity, the Phi Beta Kappa. They arc the sons of two late prominent physicians of this city. s. C. Baker and Alec Dick. Both of the young men expect to study medicine. Among the other former students of the Sumter city schools to re ceive degrees at colleges and uni versities this June are the follow ing: Albert C. Phelps from the Citadel; Leland Edmunds, J. M. Dick. M. A. DuRant. Marion Cothran from Presbyterian college: Misses Elizabeth China. Dorita Moise, Alice Wells. Jeanette White, Antonia Pitts, Sue Blackwell from Winthrop college: A. H. Green from the University of South Carolina and W. B. Stuckey, S. Howard Jones, in law from the university: i W. A. Mellwaine. in law at the University of Virginia: A Iva Solo-1 moms from Annapolis: Miss Eliza-j beth Lesesne from Randolph -Ma con Woman's college: Miss Con stance Bultman from Hood college. Maryland: Richard Wells from Clemson college. From the county. Furman Ba- \ ker Beall was graduated this month from Johns Hopkins uni versity, where he has made a specialty in modern languages. Be fore that he had spent 1". months! studying in France and received degrees from both the University of Dijon and the University of Par- ' is. Ralph Ramsey of Wedgelield . received the degree of master of arts from the University of South Carolina where he will continue to 1 study law. W. H. Dargan, principal of the; Boys' high school, is to study chem istry this summer at the University of Iowa. The first meeting of the Kiwanis 1 Club in Sumter was an enjoyable affair. _ . ' DEATH OF JUDGE EDWARD McIVERt Was Holding Court in Dar lington When Suddenly Stricken Darlington, June 19. ? Judge Edward Mclver of the Fourth ju dicial circuit died at the Hotel McFall here at 3:4 5 o'clock this afternoon. Judge Mclver had come to Dar lington for the summer term of court which he opened this morn ing. He had not been well, but his condition was such that he opened the court and continued business until 12 o'clock when he was forced to adjourn because of his illness. He was accompanied to the ho tel by J. P. Kilgo, court steno grapher. Dr. J. B. Edwards was summoned, and after an examina tion Dr. Edwards called Dr. S. H. Barnwell from Florence for a con sultation. Judge Mclver showed signs of improvement, and the ill man advised against calling his family. He had suffered similar attacks previously, and he thought it unnecessary to alarm his family. Within a short time he became worse and died at 3:45 o'clock. The body will be taken to Cheraw "tonight for interment tomorrow. Solicitor J. Monroe Spears has asked Governor Harvey to appoint E. C. Dennis special judge to con tinue the term of court. The members of the Darling ton bar will attend the funeral in Cheraw tomorrow. THE MUNICIPAL ABATTOIR Statement by Health Officer Browning of Reasons For Establishment of the City Slaughter House In reply to the inquiry about the city abattoir in the columns of The Item of June 16th, signed "Tax Payer." captioned "Is It Necessary?" It is the opinion of the Board of Health and everyone familiar with the meat industry supplying Sum ter with fresh meat, that an ef ficient inspection of meat is nec essary. Without an abattoir, and central place of slaughter, the cost of an inspection if efficient, would be prohibitive. An inspec tion that does not require the pres ence of an inspector at the time of slaughter, is an inspection in name only. There has not yet been devised a, method whereby meat can be inspected in the market, and anything like an accurate de cision made as to the health of the.animal at the time of slaugh ter. Anyone can readily see that the employing of a force of inspec tors sufficient to inspect all meats killed in the different parts of the county would necessarily be. a : large one, and an inspection of this character would have to be borne by the taxpayers, with no opportunity of any financial re turn, except the assurance of healthy animals being placed on the market. An inspection of this character could not assure the public that the meat on the market is absolutely clean. As well as in j spection -for conditions of health, the abattoir will provide clean j meat. Ir is absolutely impossible for a butcher to kiU beef in the most convenient place he can find, load it on a wagon while yet moist and hot. haul it miles through the sun and dust and deliver it in anything like a first class condi tion. Meat handled in this man ner may be dangerous. The abattoir, if it no more than pays its own operating expenses will return handsome dividends to the city in providing cleaner meat and better meat from healthy ani mals. The proponents of the ab attoir have studied the situation very carefully, and they are assur ed that it will pay a dividend suf ficient that it will never cost the taxpayers anything, and neither will the cost of the abattoir be placed on the meat consumers either, as the slaughtering fees will be no more than the present cost of slaughter*, on account of the im proved facilities for slaughtering at the abattoir. The writer having personal ex perience in the development of the. abattoir idea, and with observing the development of the abattoir in other places, assures the producer, the retailer and the public that af ter the abattoir is fully developed, a return to the old method of handling meat would not be con sidered for several times the cost of an abattoir. The taxpayer's observation that the present conditions are so bad. and likely to become worse, is an argument in favor of the abattoir, in stimulating the beef and hog growing industry in the surround ing country, and will be an aid in getting away from cotton and the boll weevil, in that it 'will provide a systematic way to market his product locally, and when local oroduction is greater than the consumption, this abattoir can be converted into a small packing plant and take care of the sur plus still. .The farmer can place his animals for slaughter at the abattoir and receive a ticket for same, and handle ticket in the same manner as a bale of cotton, or he can sell the animals on foot to the market man as he sees fit. D. O. BROWNING. StlH-Harrod. Miss Gladys Still of Sumter and Mr. John P. Harrod of Savannah. Ga.. were united in marriage Tuesday afternoon, June 20th. at o'clock. The marriage took place at the Salem Baptist par sonage, Kev. B. W. Reynolds of ficiating. Immediately after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Harrod left, by way of Columbia, for Waynesville. N. C. where they will spend some time, after which they will locate in Athens. Ga. May the pathway ' of these young people be strewn with the flowers of a joyful living, and may their lives be fragrant with the perfume of happy devotion. , Tobacco Association Gaining Members Co-operative Marketing Plan^ Growing in Favor With the Farmers Savs Association! Official - . Raleigh. X. C. June 19.?Judge; C. A. Woods, circuit judge of Unit ed States court of appeals. Fourth circuit, and well known planter of Marion. S. C. joined the list of leading tobacco growers from South Carolina, who have signed the contract of the Tobacco Grow ers' Cooperative Association with in a week. } Following the lead of the large planters, who have recently chos en the co-operative association as their marketing agency, many to bacco farmers are now making haste to sign before it is too late 1 to market this year's crop at thej 3S% co-operative warehouses inj South Carolina. / Contracts which are pouring into Raleigh headquarters of the asso ciation from Horry, Florence, Darlington, Williamsburg and Clar endon counties are adding strength to the association daily. The wildest rumors are being circulated against the marketing association at the border market-1 ing points of Xorth Carolina and South Carolina, as revealed by a telegram from Lumberton recently j received at headquarters of' the To- j bacco Growers' Cooperative Asso ciation enquiring as to a report that a thousand growers were suing the hurley association of Kentucky. "Absolutely false"' was the term I applied to these rumors by Wm. Collins, assistant chief of field ser vice for the Burley Tobacco Grow ers' Co-operative Association. In answer to a telegram of in : quiry from headquarters of the I Tri-State organization Mr. Collins I telegraphed as follows: "Report I that a thousand growers are suing j Burley Association is absolutely j false. Members are well satisfied j everywhere and signup continues. I Six hundred forty new contracts j received last week and over five l hundred this week about five thou j sand members added since ware houses closed. Are confident of ten thousand more before next crop delivered." SAVE THE MELONS j New Publication Explains Prevention of Stem-End j Rot 3j Clemson Coltege. June 19.?Many I carloads of watermelons are lost j annually by South Carolina melon j growers through stem-end rot de veloped while the melons are in transit to market which could be saved with slight trouble and ex j pense by a simple treatment of the stems with Bordeaux paste at the time of loading in the cars. To help melon growers save this big loss during the shipping season j now at band; the Extension Ser | vice has issued Information Card |Xo. 21, "Prevention of Stem-End I Rot of Watermelons." which may . be had free upon request from the ! Extension Service, Clemson College, i S. C.,_ or from the county agents. The card calls attention \to the j method of treatment, which con ! sists of recutting the stems at the j cars and painting them with Bor jdeaux paste; and to the method j of making the paste by using S j ounces of bluestone and 4 ounces j of starch to one gallon of water, \ this quantity of paste being suffi | cient to treat two to four carloads : of melons. This home-made paste [ is easily made according to the in j structions given and may be kept a j week or ten days if desired in glass I or earthen vessels. A commercial ; paste may now be obtained also. ? "-? ? ? Xews From Pisgah. i i , I Pisgah. June 19.?The play giv | en by the B. Y. P. U. of Pisgah ? church last Friday evening was a j fine success. The program was j strictly carried out without a i hitch or mistake. It was both in | teresting and instructive and moral j all the way. It would make this I article too long to give all the acts. : but the church and its branches I by Miss Marie Barfleld and several j young ladies who represented all j the different church branches, j "Tenting . ' on the Old Camp j Ground," by Miss Lois Elmore, j "Mother" by Miss Ethel Watson, j and "Jesus Keep Me Xear the j Cross" by several young ladies j were very fine and impressive, j Hawkins Watson, Cecil Rogers and J La than Barfield did credit to them i selves in their parts. Music was j furnished on piaqo by Misses j Ethel Watson and Bertie Hatfield I and on string band by Mrs. Eva j Shirer. Len Baker and Clinton j Ross. A large crowd was present j and quite a neat sum was realized I which the ladies w^ll use for a good j purpose. Credit is due Mrs. Daisy I Barfield, Mrs. Delia Elmore, Mrs. j E,va Shirer and others for their I untiring efforts to make it a suc ! cess, and they succeeded splendid j ly. We have a fine home talent I here which makes a success of I anything it wants' to do. j The dry weather is very bene ? fieial to the crops. A long dry spell will hurt corn for it can't ; make without rain. Bill bugs and ; other insects are playing havoc j with the crop which is not prom : ising. The colored people are as hap ; py as larks. Xo argument put before ^them can convince them I that times arc hard. They think i white people have money by the barrel. We will have some fruit of an inferior kind. Watermelons are poor, too much rain on them. ; Mr. and Mrs. Leon Stuckey and i J. E. DuPre spent the day Sun day with Mr. T. S. Stuckey's j family of Stateburg, and attended it he High Hills Sunday school in (the afternoon. The writer had the pleasure of addressing the same. It is a live body. Reports from the local canning factory are to the effect that busi ness is good with the plant handl ing a large amount of beans, Man Shoots Wife And Her Mother Leaves Bodies in Automobile and Is Later Arrested Near Sylvania Statesboro; Ga.. June 19.?Mrs. I M. B. Dixon. thirty-eight, and her j daughter. Mrs. Elliott Padric, j eighteen, were found shot to death in an automobile near Ovo, Ga., early tonight. The younger woman's husband, from whom she had been separat ed for several months, was arrest ed and deputies placed him in an. automobile and started towards! Savannah to place him in jail for i safe-keeping. _ The two women met Padric to day at the railroad station at Clyo j and started with him for home at i I Dover in ah automobile, officers ! ; said. Shortly after the machine i returned to Clyo, where gasoline was purchased, and another start was made. At dusk another auto mobilist discovered the bodies of the two women in the machine j near Clyo. The car was placed so as to block the road and the switca j ! key had been removed. Padric was arrested shortly afterwards near Sylvania. Padric said he planned a trip to Dover with his wife and moth er-in-law. He was driving their sedan, his wife being seated at his side and his mother-in-law in the rear seat. On reaching the Ogeechee river bridge. Padric says, his jealously over his wife's al leged attentions to other men got the best of him. He stopped the car, pulled out his pistol and shot them both to death before they I had a cha rice to move in their seats, he said. Padric said that he thought I first "of throwing the bodies into j the river, but reconsidered this and t left them in the tonneau of the jcar. The bodies were discovered ! in a short while by some one pass | ing, and the news was quickly } carried to Dover. - Padric walked to Dover and re [ quested Doris Carswell to drive ! them to this city. Before they ! reached here, however, the crime ! had been discovered and county j police met Padric. I SUMMERLAND j CREAMERY ; New Batesburg Enterpose Proves Helpful to Farmers i Bateburg. June 20.?The Su;m i merland Creamery, which has been ! in operation less than two months, i is proving to be just what the j farmers of this section needed,/ ac cording to D. G. Badger, District J Dairy Husbandman, who reports ! that the creamery is helping to put ! the farmers on a cash basis?the i greatest need perhaps of South j Carolina farmers today. . \ The creamery.. in the establish ment of which the Extension Serr vice aided, .is run in connection with the Batesburg Beverage and Ice Co., so that the power.; refrig eration and space were provided without the usual expense of mon I ey and time for these things. Be | ginning with, an initial churning of j only 122 pounds of butter, it is now receiving 1.200 to 1,500 pounds of cream per week from which are made 600 to 700 pounds of v butter. ; A first class product is being made, jsays Mr. Badger, and there is no I trouble in selling it to advantage in i Columbia, Augusta. Aiken and I Batesburg. In fact, the supply j cannot meet the demand.. . i Since the creamery has been in operation, the manager, Mr. M. P. j Hazel, has also put in a milk-feed ing station for poultry, which pro vides a market for all kinds of i poultry. The broilers received are I placed in batteries and fed on a j buttermilk mash for fourteen days and then shipped to the northern I markets at a fancy price, j During May the creamery and i the poultry market paid to the I farmers a little over" $1,400. Of this j amount, the creamery alone paid $760. The farmers in the vicinity {of Batesburg are naturally very j well pleased, and if it continues to manufacture the quality of butter now being turned out, it will have ; a splendid growth. op ^ ^ Marriage Licenses. White?Alva Burkett and Annie M. Strange of Sumter. Harry L. Harvin and Sarah R. ? Griffin of Pinewood. John P. Harrod of Savannah and Gladys Still of Sumter. Colored?Alec James and Aline i Benjamin of MayesviUe. ! Albert Johnson and Pauline ! Mayes of Brogdon. j Luther McMillan and Lillie May ! Moses of Sumter. i Coulter Green and Carrie Troat j of Mayesville. ? ? ? ^ The County Board of Commis | sioners seem to be of the opinion, iand rightly so. that the county j cannot undertake to open and put j into condition for motor travel' ; new roads paralleling the old roads ! that are now being paved. The . public will have to put up with the j inconvenience caused by the con : struction work that is in progress, using any neighborhood roads that i are available as detours and mak j ing out the best they can, until the I new hard surface paving is com : pleted. The paving is costing the county, an immense amount of : money and there is no use in Ihr : creasing the burden of debt, if it can be avoided. The boll weevil is reported to be* doing considerable damage in York county. The Piedmont sec tion and the Pee Dee counties ; bordering on North Carolina that ; sustained very little weevil damage last year and produced practically normal yields of cotton will go through the same experience this year that Sumter, Lee and Clar endon had last year. Any section , that can grow cotton successfully is also a fine pasture for the boll weevil?there is no escape from the destructive pest. A potato in town is worth two in the country. / / taft welcome > in london Britain's Foremost Men Gath er in His Honor?King Sends Greetings London. June 19.?Britain's fore most statesmen, jurists and lawyers and a great body of American ? friends joined in an impressive re- * ception to Wiiliam Howard Taft, Chief Justice of the United States, upon his first publio appearance in England tonight. He was the guest of honor at the Pilgrim's banquet at which five members of the cabinet, many former cabinet ministers and the greatest legal minds in the country lent their,, presence. Rarely before has a visiting American received such a spon taneous welcome. The king and the Prince of Wales, sent mes?* sages of greeting and Earl of Bal four and the Very Rev. William Ralph Inge, dean of St. Paul's, tes tified to the affection and admira tion in which Mr. Taft, is held by the Englsh people. Those who sat at the prinicapU table with Lord Desborough, NChief Justice Taft and Amabssador Har vey, included the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Earl of Balfour' the Earl of Debery, the Earl of Devonshire, Viscount Cave, Lord Lee of Fareham, Lord Corson, Lord James M. Beck, solicitor general of the United States. The other guests included Vis count Aetor. the American consul general; Robert P. Skinner and the. staff of the American embassy. Mr. Taft apologized for avoidance of certain subjects, the discussion of which might have been pos3ibl$ were he as simple private citizen? but was.precluded beause, as he declared*it, "the monastic order I have joiped and the vows I have taken prevent such discussion." H-e proceeded briefly to review the history of the relations betws&n Great Britain and America, the course of which he said: "No trouble .arises between the two countries that we of America do not all of us look forward tq its settlement either by negotiations or by arbitration. Any other event is not considered for a moment. This American state of mind is a ! constant factor in our relations? ! it sometimes produces an apparent j indifference or lack of excitement j on the part of our people over ir ; ritating issues that is misleading j to the British observer." j Mr. Taft referred to the. action j following the overwhelming strain j of the war and the interval of con* i valescen<3e, which was not a period ! of good nature c" common sense' j which all the allied -peoples were I now experiencing. ; . "We .must regard dickerings and unreasonable sensitiveness" he added, '*not as a discouragement, but as a symtom of recovery." He was unable to touch upon tha question of why America did net enter the league of nations, hut could only say, looking back over the controversy that American i membership in the league would j have had to overcome a deep seated. I popular conviction, confirmed by ? j century and a quarter's experience, j of the wisdom of America keeping ; out of European entanglements. . ?* i "Of course, the World War itself j shook thi3 conviction," he said, I "but the reaction from that su j preme effort restored some of", its j strength. J "As ? citizen with no official j mandate I beg those Britains I am j addressing not to be misled "by; i temporary embullitions of one ! faction or another, but to coun? j on the fundamental public opinion j of the United States in respect for i our foreign relations which will j always prevail in^ a real exigency land whicbv regards the maint en hance of friendship with Great: j Britain as a most' necessity secur-' i ity for pea^e of the world." Iboll weevil bulletins Supply on Hand at Chamber ! of Commerce i In compliance with the request I of. the Sumter County Committes [of Progress, the Sumter Chamber I of Commerce has ordered and has I already received a supply of "The I Boll Weeyil Problem." FarmersV ' Bulletin Xo. 1262 which will be j distributed at the Chamber of Commerce rooms on application. These bulletins will not be mail ed, to any one, as no provision has been made for free mailing. Congressman H. P. Fulmer has. supplied 1,000 copies of this valu able illustrated bulletin of thirty one pages and Dr. W. W. Long, director of co-operative extension work in agriculture, and horn? economics of Clemson College has forwarded five hundred of the same bulletins, and expects to send five hundred more for free distribu* tion. Mr. Fulmer has requested two thousand additional bulletins No. 1262 sent to. the Sumter Chamber of Commerce as soon as possible. ??*.." Congressman Fulmer is very much interested in the problems1 confronting the farmers in boll weevil control and has written the Sumter Chamber of Commerce to \ distribute with each boU weevil problem bulletin a list of several hundred other farmers* bulletins which Mr. Fulmer is prepared and anxious to mail to any farmer oh application to Mr. Fulmer. Direct control by poisoning With calcium arsenate is of special in terest to all cotton farmers and this bulletin Xo. 1262 is very instruc tive along this line while at ths same time containing many other valuable educational points of boU weevil control. This is the wry la test bulletin by the bureau of entomology of the United Statts department of agriculture?and in issued by Clemson College exten sion division experts and by the United States department of agri culture scientific authorities after thorough experimentation and years of research along boll wee vil control efforts. * Mexico is'threatened by .another revolution and feels natural again*