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I TOWN ?ND C Iform Council Meeting "Fifty ladies of Sumter and Snmter county attended the month ly meeting of the Sumter County Gouncil K>f Farm Women at the Sumter Creamery last Saturday. The following interesting and in structive program was very much enjoyed: 1. Half hour devoted to getting acquainted with each other. 5 2. Business session presided over by Mrs*. E. W. Dabbs, Jr., the president.. ? S. Reports from .State Council of Farm Women 'read* by Mrs. J. J,? Dargan. ? 4. Report from State Short" 'Course at Winthrop College read bV Mrs. R. H. Ramsey. ? 5. Talk by Mrs. S. O. Plowden, district Home Demonstration a?ent on opportunity of the wo llen in economics. , 6. Talk by Mr. C. W. Schmolke, j manager Sumter Creamery on wo- i .sgah's part in the agricultural re- j ?fiatjustment.' ~ 7. Miss Caro Truluck, homej demonstration, told of egg-laying I - contest among Sumter county poul try and home demonstration clubs -"beginning about July 15thv ^,8. The Sumter Creamery enter tained the ladies with ice cream, j cake, milk and showed them over j Sumter's new and modern butter, ice-cream, and milk plant. This meeting of the Council of Farm Women was the largest in j point of attendance ever held and! tSe "interest in this work is increas-j ifcgl The women of Sumter and j Sumter county are very active in i public affairs and are' organizing in j Sue: shape. The. home demonstra- ; ?on chibs and home demonstra-1 rio'n agents are potent factors in*i bringing about the closest and j friendliest relations between city, i t$wn and.country and in successful- j !y developing community spirit and! cooperation. j Plans For IS22 ! SamterOmnty Fair At 10 o'clock Tuesday morning, at- Sumter Chamber of Commerce, the directors and ladies' advisory I committee of the Sumter County 3j&f^ Association will meet in joint se^ion to continue the plan of co operation between the citizens of j Snmter county, the city of Sumter, the county seat for the biggest and best county \fair' for 1922 ever pulled' off in South Carolina."; ' ' V j^i'The past jwill be wiped oit of the ?ate>?nd a fresh start will be jfcWue: The women of Sumter county have been called upon to show the men what Sumter coun ty women can do and the women K?ve accepted the challege, thrown * tjieh- hat? into the ring and from i?w on there is g*ing to be some thing idoing every minute to create interest and hitch'up Sumter and ^nrter county: ""every school, every club, every business organization, e'very business establishment and finery man, woman, boy and girf in sfcewinginat the Sumter, the Ganie cock county, has the goods to de liver and' knows how to deliver t|#jn through a real simon-pure, true-true county fair. 1 The women of Sumter ' county have' been .the biggest factors in making- our county fail's. The '^o&fen .are the main factors in ev <vry- county and every state fair. "!?he. men . knew this all along but the Sumter County Fair Associa tion officers and directors have j ^he' honor of being the first men in : ?tbe United States to admit these j fa.cU. -?f course the men have done | -their part. It will never be ad- | aoitted that man is'of no conse-) ?pxence in county fairs. But when j ths dear women honor the men by j joining in with the male element in putting over anything "it is all over but the hoilerin*"?at least that is the way it is in Sumter and Sumter county. So watch the* papers from now j on'for real live facts and interest- ; togr data. The publicity department of the'Sumter Counyt Fair Asso-I ciation has been told to draw on j the treasurer and to "tell 'em a few" and* to start the ball to roll-: |ng. All that is now necessary? j and that -aH is a great thing, i3 for ? Sumter and Sumter county to pull i together. Thafthis will be done is ax foregone -conclusion. Whenever j Sumter county decides to havej "open house" the doors and the j gates are taken off tfje hinges and j pocketbooks and hearts are opened, j So the 1922 Sumter County Fair, : November 21st, 22nd. 23rd and #4th is* going to smash all former ! .records?redeem any mistakes of j thf past "and show that we are not permanently afflicted either with j cold feet or with permanent ad- j versity. ? ? ? Miss Doris Mpses - Entertains One of the most delightful social events of the season was the dance given by Miss Doris Moses on Sat urday evening in club rooms of the Palmetto Fire Insurance company. Invitations were Issued to a hun dred friends and a large proportion of that number enjoyed the occa sion. Promptly at 9 o'clock the orchestra opened with a grand march, at the conclusion of which cards were distributed, and en gagements arranged for the twelve regular dances which were to fol low. Fruit punch was served through out the evening, and during the intermission delicious ice cream and cakes were handed. . At li:'4o the last waltz was danced to the strains of Home. Swee^t Home, and the merry party bade regretful farewell ere the midnight hour struck. Counterfeit $100 bills are in cir culation. This will worrj only! bootleggers and landlords. fltlNlY NEWS THINGS GOING I ON IN SUMTER Tom Jenkins in Indiana is Still Interested in Sumter Affairs Editoe Daily Item: We-read the lit em regularly, and find it interesting. 1 There are things going on in Sumter that would interest people who never heard- of Sumter, so forgive me, please, a son of the soil, if after j these five years I break forth in your generous columns. I do not gather ?a full under standing of politics in Sumter from what is writiten. And wo man's place therein, if any. \ As suming that sportsmanship has any place in politics, what is the sig nificance of defeating a lady for a place on the school board in an election from which .women are barred participation, and in which election the lady was not a candi date? Reading about the gas rate case, and this, that, and the other, you gather the impression that at least a part of the political leader ship of Sumter holds itself con viction proof. On one subject, however, there can be no doubt, and that is that a very creditable showing has been made in Sumter county in the past decade in the matter of permanent improvements, such as streets, roads, public utili ties, etc.. and no one should fail to place the credit where it be longs. Hard times or good, there is brain and brawn in Sumter I county, with spirit to move it, and! it is best moved in the direction i of lasting benefits. * ' i And the boll .weevil. They have infested my dreams 'till the thought has come that, like the ! seven plagues that saved Egypt foVj the Egyptians, the boll weevil may; yet save the south. Xet's figure Sumter county rich in boll weevils, and then show the damage they in-; I fltct upon such common farm pro ducts as cows, chickens, snap beans, billy goats, or tobacco. Consider the cow: > Milk production in the United States last year was 98,862,27C,000 pounds, with a direct cash value of $2,410,000,000.00. Neither wheat, cotton, nor corn Lequal in value the product of the cow. Certified sweet milk here is de-: livered for 10c per quart. .Eggs,^ 23c per dozen. Chickens are 37 j ! l-2c per pound; and plentiful. Milk in Sumter is 15c per quart, and chickens are oftentimes not to j be had at any price. I Pasturage is better here, but! South Carolina has three months! per year more grazing time, and j Indiana buys cotton seed meal from j South' Carolina" to feed cattle on ' during the long and cold winters. | But aside from its sale value, no I normal family can afford to re linquish milk: a3 a part of its reg ular' diet. : Lack of it, the- doctors say, fl. responsible for more ill; health arid suffering than any! known food. ' ; : J If the boll weevil destroys; wealth' in the cotton fields, why not J build up health with the milk cow ? Under present boll weevil condi tions, you migbA fairly assume that j milk and chickens should be plenr! tiful in Sumter, but they are not. One can get in Sumter plenty of j frozen beef from Kansas, and can- j ned milk from contented cows in j Wisconsin, *if a cow really is con-1 tented in a dark stable, with thirty! degrees below zero on the outside, j and South Carolina cotton seed meal for a steady diet. But the fact is that South Caro lina^ evidently must be contented to have it that way, or it would not be so. I note that Mr. Korn desires to sell some shavings to the light J plant for $1.00 per ton. That! sounds thrifty. I have never been j in Mr. Korn's mill, but just taking] a Sherlock Holmes view of it, j would venture the thought that j there is very little "hesitation" in j evidence around said mill. Mr. Editor, no sacrcasm or med- i dling is meant here. Sumter is ! dear to our hearts. I am solid on j the idea that if cotton were 40C | per pound, and the boll weevil in; limbo forever, that Sumter county 1 could wax fat and prosperous on a ! crop of vegetables, milk, and chick ens. Sincerely, T. B. JENKINS. Richmond, Ind.. June 23. Pal-Fi Social A truly enjoyable event of the past week was the "house warm I ing" of its new club rooms by the I Pal-Fi Social club Friday evening. The club was organized very i recently by the employees of the ! Palmetto and Fidelity Fire Insur | ance companies and already prom ! ises to be very active in the social I life of the <ity. i The special program for the oc ! casion was well arranged and very 1 pleasing to all present. I Mr. Albert L. Moise. of Philadel ! phia, gave several humorous 'sketches that kept his audience i rocking with laushter. As a ran ! contuer. Mr. Moise compares very ! favorably with Irvin S. Cobb. j Mr. D. L. Pierce sans several ; songs in his inimitable manner ! which were heartily applauded. ' Miss Sadie Minis assisted him at I the piano. Out of appreciation of the club ; unanimously voted Messrs. Moise i and Pierce honorary members and extended them the privileges of the ? club during their stay in the city. Dancing and bridge completed j the evening's entertainment. A delightful refreshment course I was served. Mrs. S. C. Roper and Miss Carrie Bradford presided at ] the ,?unch bowl. ? Stil, a public official is in no danger if he will be careful to re main neutral in til** war between 1T bugs and society. Sumter Chapter, American Red Cross j A Brief Sketch of the History of the Chapter With Its j Work in War and Peace I The length of {his article will not j Permit the giving of the activities 1 of the chapter in detail, nor the names of all of those who served untiringly as committee chairmen and as individuals; hence only the i names of the officers and a few of the workers will be given, with a brief outline of the principal work undertaken by the chapter. . April 20. 19-17, a group of eight persons met to discuss the advis ability of forming a Red Cross Chapter to carry on war work and other activities as should be pre scribed by national headquarters. At this time a temporary organ ization was formed with Mrs. Xina Solomons as chairman and Dr. E. R. Wilson as secretary, until a sub sequent meeting could be held to j perfect the organization. Such a I meeting was called for May 9th. ?and resulted in the formation of an organization of seventy mem-' j bers to be called . The Sumter j Chapter of the American Red j Cross, with Mr. Neill O'Donnell as ; chairman. Mrs. Nina Solomons las. vice chairman; Miss Mary Wilson, secretary, and Mr. R. L. Edmunds treasurer. Chairman of Standing committees were appoint ed to complete the executive com mittee. The chapter gradually increas ed in membership until by the end j of July one thousand members had ? been enrolled, including twelve : auxiliaries throughout the county. j - During the infancy of the chapter its principal activity was the pro j auction of garments. Tn April, j 1918. ther? was added the produc j tion of surgical dressings. I In the fall of 1917 the first an | nual meeting was held and officers elected as* follows: Mr. Xeill ! O'Donnell. chairman: Mrs. A. C. I Phelps,. vice chairman; Miss Annie I Purdy, secretary: Mr. R. L. Ed i munds, treasurer. With the' excep tion of the chairman these officials are still in office. In April, 1918, Mr. O'Donnell resigned as chair man, and Mr. L. D. Jennings was elected to fill his place, which of fice he still holds. During 1917 a number of junior auxiliaries were formed. These juniors have been constantly in creasing their activities, and have played, a vital part in the life of the chapter. A Canteen Committee was also formed. During the period of the war this department worked un tiringly in serving trocp trains. At the time of the influenza epidemic it . rendered splendid service to re lief committees by furnishing nourishment for the sick. Red Cross courses in First Aid and in Home Nursing and Care of the Sick were conducted during the war. and were largely attended. The chapter oversubscribed its quota several times during the war. < As time progressed, the need for someone to look after applications concerning allotments and allow a.nces became apparent. A com mittee was appointed in July, 1918. but it soon became necessary to ! have a trained secretary to attend to this Home Service work. In January. 1919, a department of Home Service was formed, with Miss Mamie Chandler, who had i been sent to Atlanta for training, : as secretary. * Miss Chandler car \ ried on this work until her resig nation in the summer of t?2i; j when Miss Helen Wheeler of Bai? i timore. was called to take her j place. . The Home Service Section slill ! continues its work of assisting the ex-service men with their claims for allotment and allowance, com 1 pensation for disability, vocational I rehabilitation. insurance. etc. Since November, J919, when Home j Service was extended to civilians, ; the Red Cross has looked after \ the poor of the entire county, en i deavoring to help them in a con I structive way so that they may I not be pauperized by indiscrimi i najte giving but may be given the ! opportunity to become strong, self reliant, useful citizens. In April, 1922, 144 families received some form of assistance from the Red Cross Home Service. 56 of these I were civilian families, and SS were ; cx-service men. 397 visits were ! made by the secretary during that ! month in connection with the ! work. I News of the death of J. W. White early this morning at his home in : Elloree was received today. In terment will .be held at Zoar this : evening. -*~e~9 Dr. D. R. Cokers talk on the j means by which to poison boll I weevils w^s very interesting, prac ?tical and helpful to everyone who ; attended. There were three or four j hundred present and they gave ! him undivided attention during his j entire lecture. He stated that the j following is the best means to use i to poison the boll weevils: ! (For mopping)?1 gallon water, j I gallon molasses and 2 pounds of i calcium arsenate. These should be mixed and^ put on cotton with a mop. This* amount will cover two and one-half acres. (For spraying)?7 1-2 gallons [water, 2 1-2 gallons molasses, and J 10 pounds calcium arsenate. This j should he done when the cotton 'is larger than in the above case. ; and a pump must be used. He stated that this method was not I practical as ir was too expensive ? and the farmers did nor have the I necessary equipment. Those who I attended were very grateful to Dr. ? Coker for his helpful remarks. ! Miss Frances X. DeLprme is the i playground directress at the Me I morial Park and her hours .ire ; from 9 to. 3 1 in the morning and d from 4:30 to 7 p. m. It is re quested of rhrrpwrents "to allow ' their children to go to the park ! during the two mentioned periods j only sis no on** will be there to care i for th*m a< any other period. ! PROPOSED MERGER OF LOCAL BANKS -, I Plan For Consolidation of j Sumter Trust Co., and Com I mercial Bank and Trust Co., j by July 1st. j Plans are now being effected for ; the merger of The Sumter Trust i Company an? . the Commercial j Bank and Trust Company. Our in I formation is that The Sumter Trust j Company will arrange to take over {and guarantee the deposits of i The Commercial Bank and Trust j Company. The plan will- be put ! into operation on July 1, 1922. Mr. j R. C. Bradham will go with the j Sumter Trust Company and repre ! sent the interest -of the depositors j and stockholders of The Commer i ci?l Bank and Trust company, and under the plans contemplated there will be no interruption of business, and the checks of depositors of [The Commercial Bank and Trust i Company will be paid at and by the Sumter Trust Company. The ? Commercial Bank and Trust com i pany requests its friends and cus tomers to continue their business with the Sumter .Trust Company. The Sumter Trust Company invites j all the friends and customers of j the Commercial Bank and Trust Company to do business with the i Sumter Trust Company. The effect of this merger and \ j consolidation will be for the best ] interest of all the friends and cus j tomers of The Commercial Bank I and Trust Company and of the i I Sumter Trust Company, and will j result in a large saving in the! overhead expenses, and this is to be desired under existing condi ! tions. I The entire details of the plans j have not yet been made public, i but we are sure that'an announce-' jznent will be made on June 30th; j by the two institutions and j {through the public press. j "Last CalL" j ; "Last call for signers" is the j ! warning of the leaders in the cam- j paign for co-operative marketing,! which opens that week in the to bacco belt of South Carolina and will continue until the last of the thirty-eight marketing points has: ! been the storm center of a mass [ j meeting. j With Virginia tobacco eighty per; j cent signed up with the tri-state i pool, with the Burley Growers' As j sociation holding over ninety per j cent of all Kentucky burley grow ers within its membership, with the recent landslide in the eastern belt bringing the quota of North Caro- I lina steadily up to seventy-five per cent of this year's crop, the lead ers of the movement for co-opera tive markets in this state predict that the tobacco farmers of South Carolina will increase their ma jority sign up to a seventy-five per cent membership, within the next few weeks. More than a hundred contracts from South Carolina reached Ral eigh headquarters yesterday and the directors from this state prophesied at the meeting of the j board in Raleigh this week that I the growers will respond with the j news of success in Kentucky, Vir i ginia and North Carolina with a I sign up which will bring in thou^ j sands of new members before the j markets open. i Bright Williamson, of Darlington, Ivice president of the Tobacco Grow : ers' Co-opeAative Association: T. B. ! Young, director from Florence, and j Director Epps, of Kingstree, whose ; county is SO per cent solid for eo ? operation, will have the. assistance ? of Joseph M. Hurt, Vice-president ! from Virginia, and ex-president of ! the Virginia Banker's Association, j Southall Farrar, District Agent of ; Extension from Virginia, and two j Kentuckians who recently enthused I the Eastren Carolina farmers with j.the statement that Kentucky grow ] ers within the pool will average I higher profits for tobacco than those j who sold upon the open market. ! Proving his statements "John Blanks of Cynthiana, Ky\, will bring sworn affidavits and letters as to the prices received by the many j individual growers and E. G. Mar ! vin, noted stock farmer and tobac ico planter from- the blue grass j country will tell how the pool dou j bles the price of burley tobacco and j rewarded the efforts of those farm ers who had courage to organize and sign the same type of contract which is offered to the farmers of this state. Boykin-CliamUcr Marriage. j Miss Bertha Chandler, and Mr. H. I A. Boykin. of this city were united in marriage at the Presbyterian j Manse Saturday evening at S:3Q J o'clock by the bride's pastor. Dr. J. P. Marion. Mr. and Mrs. Boykin left immediately after the cere mony for a stay in Asheville, N. C. j A large attendance is expected j at the Masonic meeting, which is !to held Thursday, June 29th. Offi I'cers of the Claremont Lodge No. jU4 have received notices from the other twelve lodges in the district {that they will be well represented I at the meeting, and other" Masons I will be present who are not in the j 19th Masonic district. The local j lodge is providing entertainment for the visitors. The feature of the meeting will be the conferring of the Master's degree by the Past Master's Club of the Claremont I Lodge on five fellowcrafts. This j function will commence at ?5 p. m. i The Stewarts are providing refresh I ments for the occasion. Dr. K. C. Reed, professor of church history in Columbia Theo logical Seminary and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian church is expected in the city next Sunday to supply the pulpit of the First Presbyterian church. Dr. Marion expects to leave for Mentreat. N. C., on Thursday to preach the open ing sermon on Sunday at the As sembly's summer Sunday school conference. Domestic clouds us?h11> mean thunder storm?. ; MERGER OF ROADS NOT COMPULSORY - I. e. C. May Suggest Certain Consolidations Washington, June 25.?Exactly ? what is the significance of the hear j ings which have been inaugurated j before the interstate commerce i commission on proposed consolida j tions of railroads? i As is usual and natural in such i complicated matters, the public j j does not become interested untii I ! the machinery of the law begins j to operate, and then as the pon derous works are contemplated | i there is a tendency towards undue j apprehension. j No power rests in the interstate :' commerce commission to force any consolidation of railroads. All that the commission can do is to au thorize the consolidation of rail roads if the* railroads themselves desire it, provided certain condi tions are complied with and the commission approves the plan. When the Esch-Cummins act of 1020 was being formulated, the j 13enate endeavored to amend it so I that the interstate commission j ? could compel railroad consolida- j j tions, but in conference between j j the house and senate the compgl- j j sory provision was eliminated and ! j the present process of suggestion j I and permission was substituted. ' j j It riiight be asked why it is nec- j j essary to empower the interstate commerce commission to permit ! I consolidations. Have not railroads j j the right now to merge, provided I j they comply with the law as to pro jection of stockholders? Not nec j essarily. In some cases in which > i the interstate commission might j 'regard a merger as in the public ? interest, v the federal anti-trust 'act would interfere if the Esch ' Cummins ayct had not given theJ i commission discretion to remove j the anti-trust barrier. In other ! cases of a similar sort there might j be state statutes in the way. ! Hotels by-Products of Crbesus* ; Coins. Introducing Croesus?godfather of the modern hotel and patrjn saint of the traveling salesman! , These are new roles assigned to : the erstwhile richest man in the i world in a bulletin from the Wasb ! ington, D. C, headquarters of the ? National Geographic Society, i "The discovery of thirty gold j pieces from Croesus* ? mint, which j were part of the first series of srold ! coins ever struck off, recalls one of j a number of heritages which civil- j I ization owes to buried Sardis," 'jays j the bulletin. Gold Oils World Trade "These new-found coins and a ; few other pieces already in mu i scums signalize the Lydian incep j tion of the gold basis for world j trade?an instrumentality which ; lubricates international commerce j j to this day. j "The hotel, or the humble inn I I which was its forerunner, was not j I possible until some ' standardized j ! and compact medium of exchange j j was available. Therefore it is not | i surprising that historians generally j agree that the. first inns, where) board and lodging might be had j for payment of regular fees, were established in Lydia. "Before that time caravanserai i were known. But they were evi- j J dences of eastern hospitality, set; j up at points where constant appli- j ; cations for entertainment grew j j burdensome, and were maintained I I as a sort of co-operative guest j j room, or modern municipal lodging j I house. Cattle Cumbersome Money j "Now it followed further that) ! when a man niight be assured! convenient" abode when he traveled, i and he could close a business 'deal* j with a pocketful of gold rather j than a herd of cattle, that the trad ing radius of the ancient world suddenly expanded. Men began to! travel for pleasure as well as for j j business, in fact the Greeks al-! j ready had ventured forth 'for his- j jtorie and for discovery.' Thus it j would seem that not only the trade: representative but the tourist and the geographer owe Croesus con- { siderable gratitude. "The modern man can hardly ap- I ! prehend, without an effort of his ! j imagination, how great a boon itj ; was to the ancients of the sixth j j century B. C. merely to visit an-1 ; other city. Important events were j : taking place. It was the time of j Buddha and Confucius, of Solon j ! and Cyrus, as well as Croesus, yet-; ; any high school boy of today can ! 'know more about what was going! j on in the world then than any one j ! living at that time possibly could i j have known. i "The casual traveler was un j known. The 'stranger* was always | feared and his life was in jeopardy, j Traders with caravans, sailors with i j their cargoes, high officials with j I stately retinues, a few beggars and i j religious pilgrims?these were the ; J only travelers of that time. Digging For History j "Despite these marked steps to- | j ward culture, Lydia has remained j ! only a flash in the pan of history. J ? Until explorers recently began dig- \ j ging in the dust of the land that j 'now is a Greek mandate on the) j Aegean shores of Asia Minor nearly , j all we knew of Lydia was the! j rambling but colorful story of; ! Herodotus. And some of what we: idid know, it now transpires, was] j wrong. The tale of how Solon.; i when asked by .Croesus to name ! j the happiest man in the world, did j ! not reply that Croesus was the j ! man. as the monarch expected, but j ! mentioned instead some humble! l and dutiful citizens of Athens, may j j persist for its moral but has been! : ruled out of history. "Lydia's wealth is thought to I have been due to various minerals j and principally to her trade. Her. j capital, Sardis. was set on a hill* ' whose ruins even now betoken an j imposing dignity. The site is sixty i miles northeast of Symrna which, fin the height of Sardis' power, was a Lydian city." j *??*>* Marriage Llocnse: White: Mr. H. A. Roykin and: Mis:- Bertha Chandler, both of| Sumter. 1 I BOLL WEEVILS I WORK IN WET ! WEATHER So Must the Cotton Planter If you expect to whip the boll weevil in a fair fight, you have got to show as much energy as he does ?which means that though the op eration may be both difficult and I unpleasant, poisoning must be done jeven when the plants are wet and 'the ground muddy, so says the. United States Department of Agri culture with regard "to poisoning the weevil with.calcium arsenate. The department has found that, during the critical stage, the pois oning should be done at intervals of about four days. Two or three applications, made in good weath er, may have got the weevils un der control. Then there comes a rainy spell and the farmer lets the time for poisoning pass while he waits for fair weather. But that is exactly the time when the wee vil is busiest. The numbers are likely to increase so rapidly that the control already gained is lost. In that event, the weevil inflicts about as. much damage as if no poisoning had been done and the farmer loses, ^n addition, what he has spent in poisoning operations. The only way to' prevent that sort of result is to let wet weather in terfere as little as possible with poisoning operations. . Stick to the schedule, the department says, re gardless of weather conditions. The department 'realizes, of course, that - poisoning cannot be done in'pouring rain but the farm er, the specialists, urge, should take advantage of the earliest op portunity to get back into the field after the rain, that he should make every effort, to get the cotton again dusted regularly, even though fair weather does not seem cer tain. He can afford, they say, to put on poison .everu in unsettled weather. It may be washed off again shortly but, on the other hand, the weather, even when it looks most threatening, may stay fair long enough to allow weevil control to operate. Every farmer, it is pointed out, must expect to lose some poison by rain but the operation is sufficiently, profitable to justify it. . Southern Raihfw Puts oh Special Train j Asheville. X. C, June 24*-The J Summer Tourist season will be op- j ened -by the Southern railway sys-! tem tomorrow when the "Land of j the Sky" Special, giving over night j service between Asheville, Wilming-! ton, Charleston, Savannah, Atlan ta and Macon. will be'placed in ser vice. Through car service to Ashe ville for the season will cover a broader territory.than ever before and all the \vestern North Carolina resorts are expecting record crowds. Through sleeping car lines have been established- to Asheville from Chicago and St. Louis in ad dition to which the lines from New Orleans, Mobile, ? Montgomery, Bir mingham and Chattanooga have been re-established for the summer. Sleeping car lines have also been established . between Memphis, Tenn.. and .Richmond, Ya., via Asheville and between Cincinnati, Ohio and Gbldsbpro, N. C, via Asheville. In addition to the ser vice in effect the year round these new lines give through sleep ing car facilities to Asheville from all sections of the south and from j principally every important city j east of the Mississippi river. AUTO BUS ? AND JITNEY REGULATIONS Columbia. June 2tf.?The rule of j the South Carolina Railroad Com mission, that all operators of motor j vehicles for hire must file liabil- j ity bond, which is part of the new j program, instituted by the legisla- j ture, for the regulation of auto: bus and jitney lines, by the state commission, has been suspended temporarily, pendingta decision by the insurance companies as to the amount of premium to be charged for such bonds. Duriing the temporary suspen sion of the rule, motor vehicles will be issued temporary permits by the railroad commission, with out the necessity of filing bond or t liability insurance policy. This ar- ! rangement will holdjzntil further notice from the commission, it is announced today. . The railroad commission assumes j jurisdiction of motor vehicles for hire July 1. Rules have been pro mulgated to protect the public using such vehicles. FILIBUSTER IS STAGED i Washington, June 23.?Because j of a filibuster by Representative j Voigt. Republican, Wisconsin, the j house adjourned tonight without taking action on the provision of ? the army bill, voted by the senate j appropriating $7.300.000 to con-; tinue construction work during the next fiscal year on the Wilson dam, at Muscle Shoals. Ala. Action on j the proposal went over until to- \ morrow, the house agreeing to meet '? an hour earlier than usual. MINERS ARE QUITTING POSTS Herrin, June 23.?Miners on ; duty at the c'osed mines in Wil- 1 liamson county, through an agree- j ment between the coal operators | and the United Mine Workers of j America, are quitting their posts ' tonight wit? the result that unless . substitutes are secured, millions of j dollars worth of mines will soon become a total loss through flood- j ing. It i.? understood that they are i quitting because of threats they I have received from local miners. ; -* . j Most all ot the new tariff duties are painful duties. j Letter From Tryon Mr. Dabbs Writes Interesting ly of Visit to Montreat and the Laymen's Meeting There Tryon, x. c., June 20.?Mr. Henry P. Moses and family found their way from 'Saluda to "The Refuge"* Sunday morning. On our trip up we beat him to Tryon by a half hour, which made our route from Wateree bridge to Spartan burg two hours the quicker. I was sorry to have missed him, but wa? at Montreat. Some weeks ago Capt. Slaymakor of Athens, Ga., invited me to at tend the laymen's conference at Montreat?the opening conference of 1922 at this gathering place for Presbyterians of the southeast. Somessixty laymen from Virginia. Xorth and South Carolina, Geor gia and Tennessee came together to talk over the things of the kingdom. For two and a half days they discussed in a very in formal way the part that laymen can and must play in winning souls to Christ. There were four meet ings daily, usually two on a sloping rock stream, hillside, underneath big shade trees, where songs of praise and earnest prayers, were more in evidence than discussions. Like Peter of old one felt like say ing: "It is good to be here. Let us now make three tabernacles." ? One for Thee, one for the Father and*one for the Holy Spirit?to slightly change Peter's suggestion. Billy Sunday clubs from several cities were represented there by business men who gave testimony, sometimes very broken and tear ful, to the wonderful joy they have experienced in personal soul win ning. Whatever one may say about Billy Sunday and his ways, it has taken just such methods to wake up the people of God to the work the laymen can do, not as doctrinaires, but as humble men who go from one to another and tell what the Lord has done for them and how He is ready to re ceive, to pardon, to bless all who turn to Him. I want thte readers of this little sketch, this poor at tempt to describe this meeting, io get into touch with these Billy San day men. Invite them to your churches and to your communi ties. I started to say come to the next laymen's conference, but do not wait for that. Get these men to come in to "-start you off, and next year you can not be kept from one of these conferences with log chains. > I do not want anyone for a min ute, who may read this poor at tempt to describe these meetings, to get it into their heads that these, men rely in their own strength. That this is a man-made . scheme to glorify some i man or group of men. I have never seen men so dependent upon the power. ;of the Holy Spirit; so.earnest to know, the win of God; so-anxious to live in the Lord Jesus Christ and to'.have Him fill their lives so f?ll of this gracious love that they can not re frain from carrying, that love to their fellow men. It is a. case oX "woe is me if I preach , not the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ;" not from man-made pulpits, though some times they do, but by .loving words and helpful deeds. .- By heart to heart, man to. man, eye to "eye close up work. The only minister who took part was the Rev. Wade Cothran Smith, first cousin to Judge Thos. P. Coth ran of the state supreme court, aud son-in-law of the late Judge Laps ley. For a number of years Mr. Smith has been doing this person al soul winning work and only re cently was he ordained to the ministry and installed pastor of the "Church by the Side of the Road" in Greensboro. X. C. He is so niformal, so "one of'us" as they say, that we never felt he was a.: preacher. Something of the men who were there: Sumter had three. E. L. Witherspoon. C. G. Rowland, T. H. Clarke. Wedgefield, Hugh Mc Laurin. There were six from Manning, five from Florence county, four from Columbia, thirty or forty from Spartanburg. two from Vir- j ginia. six or eight from Xorth Car- j olina, three from Georgia, two from Tennessee. There may have' been others whom I did not meet. The first meeting in the new! hundred thousand dollar auditor-1 ium was held at the 11 o'clock sei- I vice Sunday. Mr. Chas. A. Row land of Athens. Ga.. presided, Mr. j Hal Dick of Columbia r made the j opening prayer. Capt. W. C. Da vis of Manning read the scripture j lesson, and Rev. Lern Chum of Ko- j rea preached the sermon, dressed i in native costume. Saturday afternoon we had the j pleasure of a trip to Blue Ridge, j the splendid Christian Association j headquarters for the south. The | view from R. E. Lee hall is won- j derful. But Dr. Anderson of; Montreat says "Montreat is the view." I spent two nights In the Wm. Brearley Home for South Carolina ministers, the gift of Mclver Wil liamson of agriculture fame. When ; not occupied by ministers of South i Carolina, men. women and chil- I dren are admitted to occupancy of j the rooms at a $5.00 a week rate j for a room. As there are two beds, i two can ccupy a room or as many j as four, husband, wife and two! children. This divided among four makes the question of rooming very j cheap. The rooms have been fur- i rushed by churches and individuals.-; Therefore toilet, bath and lavatory on each floor. These fees go to \ pay for laundry, the board of Dr. ; and Mrs. Kirkpatrick. who have I charge of it, and such improve- j ments as the board of trustees find ; they are able to do. Mrs. H. W. | Pratt of Columbia is chairman of: a woman's committee that is trying to secure money to put in hot water! on each floor, full water service j on the third floor and to finish the t third floor. Ministers of South j Carolina are free, and should a suf- j tieient number of them go at one time to occupy ail the rooms, others even though paying, will have to vacate. As Rev. Wm. Brearley. my life-long dear friend and Mclver Williamson, a school mate and j i neighbor when we were hoys to-, j gether, I felt that it was a speeial ? providence that threw me in eon j tact with some who were going to j the home. I had for a room mate .an earnest Christian from Decatur, ! Ga., who sells tickets all the week j in the consolidated ticket oflSce in i Atlanta, and spends his Sundays* i holding religious services in the i jail, chaingang and other destitute J places, Mr. E. A..Miner, j Made- the very -pleasant ac<juai?t? j ance of Miss Annie Shadden, one j of the home missionaries of the ! Southern Presbyterian church. She j knew Rev. Lloyd intimately and j told me much of his work among i the Indians of Oklahoma. Some j of the readers of The Item mayre i member that Mr. Lloyd was -rais i ed near Brick Church in Salem, I Black River, and that the Salem* ! Christian Endeavor Society had : some correspondence with him ? few years ago. Going to this home caused me t? meet Miss Mary McBermid, for four years head of the primary de I partment of the Thprnwell Orphan J age school. She is leaving the or phanage to go to a ichool in j Alabama, her native state. Also \ Miss Sloan, a northern Presbyterias^ j missoinary for twelve years to j Porto Rico and now of Cuba, j Also Dr. and Mrs. Little for [twenty-seven years of the- South-^ } ern Presbyterian mission in Chi j na. When my room mate left I went : to the hotel and made some more' ! pleasant acquaintances. Met one [oi the McQutchens from Bishop j ville who owns two cottages, and i was busy installing his family; Miss. : Vardelle Fraser, who wa3 viskfttg* I Miss Julia Ervin at her cottage ! near the Wm. Brearley home and j whose father, S. F. Ervin, was a j boyhood neighbor, .'. - Miss Vardelle graduates at Win-* I throp this summer and begins her j work as assistant registrar there ! August 1st. < I Besides m%eting the native* Kpr I rean minister and hearing . him preach, I met at Blue Ridge, a splendid youth, a Chistian Hind?f who has been in this country for some time studying the textile in dustry at the ^Georgia University at Athens. !ff Some , of the farming, between* Blue Ridger: Montreat and Ashe i viHe in the beautiful gently un ! dulating Swannanoah valley, sur ! rounded by mountains 4,000 to j 5.000 feet high, is of a very high I order. Soy beans have become,- a* ! staple crop- and .were beautifuL ! Irish potatoes, corn, wheat, ryeC l all .good ? and all showed intensiv* j culture. We saw some beautiful : cows about Black Mountain, i Monday I was offered a seat to" I Tryon with Hal Dick, Jerome Wil j son and Guy Tarrant. In AsheviHe ? had the pleasure of meeting Je ? rome. Wilson's sister. Miss Minnie ; Wilson, .who grows more attractive ; as she grows years younger. ! Just out of Asheville our car broke down afcd Mr. Wilson hailed ? a .city street truck to be able to spend more time with his sister. Who should the drrver be but ?a* of John .Bradley*s sons, brother ef Creighton Bradley, on Bland*? Witherspoon farm at Brick Church He has been in Asheville .two years I and is doing well there, i Our trip was fine untilc.we were i overtaken by a rain five miles be^ j yond .Hendersonville. We foliowed, j the rain down to Tryon. The j streams were raging, muddy,, tor I rents, the road wet and dangerous. I I kept posting Mr. Tarrant about ! the dangerous ground and curves ! ahead and Mr. Dick kept saying ! "Hold her in- the miiddle of the ! road Guy, hold her in the middle,, i of the road." quoting from direc \ tions given him a dark night 50 I years ago by John M. McElveen ! and W. A. Cooper as they drove i from Sumter to Scottsville, and ti<? ! was allowed to be the proud Jehu ? of a -spirited double team. W9 ! all breathed a sigh of relief whea ! we reached the bottom of the i steep grade a mile -west of where i I am sitting in the beautiful Paco : let'valley. B.W. Dabbs. ' 1 W. O. W. to Have National Hom$ For Disabled Memhera. * ? 1 - Hendersonville, N. C, June * j Hendersonville during the greater ' part of Ji'iy will virtually be the I national headquarters of the Wood ! men of the World. For three i weeks beginning July 3? the sov i ereign executive council of thafr great fraternal and i!>surances?? i der will be* in session here, and I during this time the site for a nat ional home for ill and disabled, i Woodmen will be. selected. He? dersonviile is making a strenuous I bid for this institution on which will be spent several millions of dollars. Other cities in the Land of the Sky are likewise bidding- for the home. On July 4, a gigantic Fourth celef bration is t& be engaged in by the citizens of Hendersonville. operat ing through their Board of Trade. Governors- Morrison and Harvet and United States Senators Over man and Shepherd win, with Mr. Fraser, be the speakers. Marriage License. White: Mr. Robert D. Ross add Miss Katie Marie Boykin, both :?f Dalzell. Still again! Yes another stilj was captured at McCray's mill, near Wedgefield Friday by Messrs. C. Uz Hurst, H. G.. McKagen. and Sam Newman. It was a 60 gallon st?? and they also captured 300 gallons of mash.and complete outfit, t*ie worm, seven glass jugs, buckets, etc. The still was built in a swamp in the middle of a stream. This is the weather that makes us think of the mountains and the beach resorts. Work on the various roads A going forward nicely. Sumter was fortunate in not being visited by the cloudburst which did so much damage in the Pee Dee s?v tion. . * ? ? Be Volife To" strangers. They might not be strangers always,. > Money is different from people* Idle money doesn't talk.