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The Watchman and Southron Published Wednesday and Satur day by Osteen Publishing Company, Snmter, S. C. Terms: $2.00 per annum?in advance. >. Advertisements: One Square* first insertion -_$1.00 Every subsequent insertion .50 i Contracts for three months or longer will be made ' at reduced rates. All communications which sub serve private Interests will oe Charged tor as advertisements. \ Obituaries and tributes of re spect will be charged for. . The Sumter "Watchman was I founded in 1859 and the True] Southron in 1896. The Watchman ' and Southron now has the com TSlned circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is man ifestly the best advertising medium in Sumter. Prof. Conrad!, of Clemson Col . lege, spent several hours in the vicinity of the city Thursday check ings up boll weevil infestation and damage in selected cotton fields, on some o? which calcium arsenate had been systematically used and others where the poison had not been used at all." He found that ' where intelligence and persistence had been exercised in the use of calcium and other control methods the infestation and damage from She ravage of the pests were not serious, the prospect at present be- j ingrthst a;fair average yield would) be obtained. Where no poison had been used and no effort m?de to control, the weevils the infestation - was very heavy and the damage was estimated to vary from eeven ; ty-five to ninety per cent. Among . other farms, he visited that of Mr. A. C. Phelps, near Camp Ali eel Here Mr. Phelps has a three acre field of ah early prolific variety of ectron that is particularly recom mended by farmers of the boll wee vil seetion of Georgia. This field > has been carefully-cultivated to promote rapid growth and fruiting and great care has been exercised In applying calcium arsenate and in picking up punctured .forms. As a result the prospect is for ? heavy yield; if the, weevils can bie j iept in check until-the end of the fruiting season. At present the crop has a great many practically v fuil grown bolls, many stalks hav ing from' forty to fifty, and still Helming and putting- on forms in profusion. Prof. Conrad! Vsaid thatr this was one of the best plots of cotton he had seen, -and the prospect for a full crop under boll weevil conditions exceptionally' encouraging. He said, also, that the - field was worth the ? time it ! would take for any cotton grower j Tlr!t it. m m+ -i S05BS FOR MORE STREET PAVING. . "'-The voters of Sumter will be called upon to decide by a major ity vote at an election to be held x on September 12th whether or not /.title city of Sumter shall issue bonds in a sum not exceeding $250,090- for the purpose of pav ing additional streets and side . -walks. "About "seven years ago a "bond issue was voted to pave the streets, and the funds derived J from the sale of bonds were used to pave as many streets as pos sible with the money available, the abutting property owners paying ^ two-thirds of the cost of the paving laid. There. was not sufficient money to pave all the streets for f-whieh : petitions were filed by J - property owners, and many *prop ^?rty owners have not enjoyed the .^.benefits of paved streets for which f^?hey were willing to pay" their as ?sssment. 'These property own ers have been paying their share the taxes levied to pay inter jzst on the paving bonds and pro file a sinking fund to retire them -at maturity. They have been tax ed to provide paved streets on which other people live, and the ^-benefits they have derived from -><hisf tax have been indirect. They have paid the taxes uncomplain isgly, as a rule, for they realized that at the time the paving pro gram was undertaken and Carried - to completion it was impossible for the city to issue .sufficient bond'- to pave all the streets, and that no . more paving could be done until The city could legally float another bond issue. The city is now in a position to issue additional paving . bond*, and those citizens who de sire paved streets abutting oh their property ask that the neces sary additional bonds be issued and that the streets for which pe titions have been filed or shall be by property owners be paved at the earliest practicable day. Those of us who live on paved streets and have enjoyed them for seven years may not feel that additional pav ing is necessary, and. taking a purely selfish view of the question, may be unwilling to pay the ad ditional taxes that another paving bond issue will impose upon us. But is that a fair way to look at the proposition? Rave not the people who live on unpaved streets an indisputable right to have the j same improvements and convenien- i ces that have been provided for j other citizens." and for which they have been taxed for seven or more years? Any fair minded man or wo man voter will immediately, with ,out argument, admit that it is only fair to pave the "streets for which I petitions have been filed or shall j -filed with City Council. It is a j matter of equity and of giving to I others the rights and benefits to { which 'they are entitled, which we I have enjoyed for years and for j which they have been paying, in j past while we have enjoyed them, j Another con s ider'ation that should have weight is the fact that a part of the "paying to be done with jthe proceeds of the proposed bond issue is to connect the paved streets of the city- with the paved highways leading into the county. On North Main and East Liberty streets the paving stops short of the city limits where the county highways begin. It is. necessary that the hard paving be continu ous from the center of the city to the end of the paving in the county. It would be incongrous to have a'gap between the paved city streets and the paved county roads, and the "property owners abutting on these unpaved sections of the two main highways leading into the county are wiling to pay two-thirds of the cost of the pav ing. A majority t>f the freeholders j having already signed the petition to Council requesting that the \ bond election be "ordered, it is "not probable that the vote oh Septem ber I2th will be adverse, but it is just as well that the issue involved be clearly' understood in advance of the election day. ? - ? ? ? Chamber of Commerce Notes Advertisement in American Legion Souvenir Program ? . - ? ? " . Sumter will be in the picture dur- j i.ng the big statat convention of the J South Carolina Department of the American Legion in Florence, next | ???eek. Miss Geneva Edwards, agent of the state' hAdquarters, with of fices in the state house in Columbia, spent a" day in Suniter last week aid with the co-operation of a number of Sumter members, of the j Legion and Secretary E. X Rear- j den, succeeded in getting a number] of business and professional men and the city of Sumter to put up J the necessary cash to have a two! page advertisement of Sumter in 1 the - big souyenh and historical sketch program of the convention, several thousand copies of which will be distributed throughout this and other states. The Sumter county veterans of the world war ; wanted their city and county and ! their service represented and Sum i ter. made it possible to do this.' [The South Carolina department of j the American Legion desired that South Carolina cities and towns would take at least one page each in the historical program to help ! out the good work, Sumter's public J spirited business establishments, j and others * who are always ready j to show their appreciation and ad j miration for the gallant veterans of the world war quickly oversub I scribed the sum necessary for one ! page and without much trouble or 'time lost' in soliciting, sufficient j money was soon subscribed to put j in, two pages describing Sumter, ! the county seat, and Sumter county j as desirable place for homeseekers, I farmers, manufacturing, wholesale, j jobbing, trucking, dairying, live j stock, etc.. and telling of our city's j educational institutions, paved j streets, churches, public utilities in j general, health record, pure water. ! three million dollar hard surface j roads construction, and other good I things about our city and county. 'Every concern or individual ap ! proached with one or two excep tions, quickly and readily subscrib i ed the amounts asked for. The following are the names of i the subscribers to this fund: j First National Bank __ $10.00 [City National Bank 10.00 i National Bank of Sumter 10.00 j Sumter Trust Co._ .10.00 j Peoples* Bank^of Sumter.. 10-00 (National Bank of S. C. 10.00 I Eoston Candy Kitchen_ 5.00 I City of Sumter_- ... 25.00 jDucker & Bultman __ 5.00 ID. J. Chandler ciothing Co. 5.00 [The Rex Theatre. 5.00 Du Rant Hardware Co. 5.00 jW. B. Burns & Sons .... 5.00 t Bryan's. Inc. .. 5.00 ?Booth & McLeod, Inc._ 5.00 j Joseph M- Chandler ._ ._ 5.00 i O'Donnell Dry Goods Co. .. 5.00 j Davis D. Moise.. __ 5.00 H. N. Forrester Lumber Co. 5.0Q jSibert's Drug Store. 5.00 No city or town in the world has a higher appreciation of the ser i vices rendered by the boys and girls, and men and women who j served in every branch of the ser ! vice overeas and at home during I the great world war than Sumter ! has. No place is any more grate ! fjil to these heroes and heroines ! than Sumter. and whenever Sum . 1.er is requested by the veterans of I that war to do anything Sumter j has always, and will always re ! spond to the extent of its ability. Is your wife back from your va j cation 3ret? Trouble with getting rich quick i? you may get caught quicker. ? ? ? Trouble about going around with a b?ng face is you do it alone. -,-9 -r-r--"?: WOMEN ESCAPE DEATH BY FIRE Greenville, Aug. 10.?Mrs. Mollie Merck, operator in charge of the telephone exchange at Piedmont, twelve miles from Greenville, and her niece,, Mies Louise Parker, nar rowly escaped being burned to death about 4 o'clock this morn ing when fire completely destroy ed . the building that housed the j exchange and several other busi ness establishments. The total damage is estimated at around $100,000. When the women, who were sleeping in the building, were awakened by pistol shots fired as an alarm by citizens, the building was nearly on the point of "falling in. Mrs. Merck attempted to let her niece down out of a. window by means of sheets torn off the bed and tied together but the young woman fell before reaching theJ ground and was slightly hurt. on the ankle and back. Mrs. Merck was rescued by citizens with lad ders shortly after. The exechange was completely destroyed, to gether with a meat market, press ing club, photographic studio and barber shop. ... Sumter Golf and Country Club. Through the ceaseless and un tiring efforts of its president, Mr. R. Leland Moore, assisted at ir regular intrevals by Messrs. Shore and Brunson, vice presidents, the Sumter Golf and Country. Club is now an assured success, and its members are daily enjoying the game of golf, on their beautiful course which, in location and nat ural conformity, is second to none in the state. It was a hard fight to secure the location, having re- ! quired more than a year to do so. j and at times it would seem a hope- j less venture, but through grit and j determination the fight was final- { ly won. The course was laid out for the ? regulation eighteen holes, but only fourteen are now being used for the reason that twenty acres of the one hundred in the tract were under cultivation last year, and it wrouId cost more to build the four holes located on these twenty acres than it did' to build the fourteen in use and the club house, combined, therefore, in view of the fact that a number who signed up to become members have not yet paid their initiation fee. it is impossible to carry out the plans of completing the 18 hole course until this money is available. New members are coming in daily, which shows that the country club spirit is fast developing, and the "golf bug" playing as important ,ai part in the production of "golf fever" as the boll weevil in the destruction of the cotton crop. Just ride out to the course any afternoon, if you will, and you will see in action such celebrities as the elongated George Shore, the di minitive Billy Crowson, Bob Oui met Shelor, Hal Vardon Harby, Bobby Jones Ricker, Graham Chick Moses, Herbert Hardhitting Moses, Mrs Daisy . Alexa Harby, Mrs. Herbert Molla Moses and a j number of others who have recent- j ly come from obscurity into the j golf limelight, to say nothing of! the old . and wornout "has-beens," j Leland Moore, Bill Brunson, Wen-! dell Levi, Dudley, Korn, Mcllwain and others who lie. awake nights j and lament their inevitable down- j fall of the rush and slaughter of j the younger golfers. The club pavilion is about fin ished, and while not so imposing in architecture, it was designed more . particularly for the tempor ary convenience of members, hav ing locker room and showers for. men. and locker room and lavatory j for the ladies, while the pavilion proper is large and admirably suit ed for dancing, bridge parties or for any other club purpose. The opening reception will be held at the pavilion in the very near fu ture and the entire membership should lend their presence. During the present week the j course will be mowed by a horse drawn gang mower recently pur chased by the club, the greens! leveled and grass removed from j th'em which will aid materially in j improving every one's game and j lessen the number of strokes now | necessary to sink the ball in the j cup. Never in the history of the game } of golf has a course been abandon ed after completion, and it is also I a known .fact that it is a gredft j drawing card for tourists for they carry their golf clubs with them as j consistently as they do their other ] luggage, and the comparison may j be drawn that just as ducks seek water in their flight south each winter, so sure will the tourist seek such places in the south where golf is a part of the advantages of fered, therefore the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary and Kiwanis clubs, as well as city officials should not only lend every effort to pro mote the interest of the golf club as a valuable asset for Sumter. but by their individual membership. The Heads of Railroad Labor to \ Reject Proposall Washington, Aug. 12.?Heads of j seven railroad labor organizations now on strike were declared by i one of their chief officials today af- j ter a final conference to have de- j cided to reject completely the strike j settlement proposal put forward by : President Harding; It is under- j stood the decision has been sent to' the White House. Officials of or- j ganizations not striking will go to i the White House at 2:30 and pre- i sent a written memorial, which L. E- Sheppard, head of conductors, i said would be supplemented by a verbal representation concerning the strike situation made by union officials. I The trouble in Europe is it won't stay there. in CO-OPERAl State Bank Examine Banks Support Co Associ Columbia, Aug. 11?"If forty years of marketing under the old jystem have left this section im poverished, except for about nor mal prices paid during the war, then is it not at least time to begin to look for some other sys tem of marketing," asks W. W. Bradley, state bank examiner, in a statement issued toda3% strongly en iorsing the cooperative marketing j [>f cotton and tobacco and urging j the banks of the state to back the two associations. Mr. Bradley declares that the success of the associations rests more largely with the banks than tvith any other force in the state. The plan will succeed, he declared, lust in so far as the banks will it to succeed. "There is nothing in the problem ;hat is inimical to their interests a.nd there is every probability of material prosperity to the banks,' is well as to the communities they serve, in promoting this marketing plan," declares Mr. Bradley in enumerating some of the reasons <vhy the banks should support the issociations. "In the past farm products have been sold to thoroughly or ganized compacts by thoroughly lisintgrate producers. The man Bvho produces has had no word in the conduct of produce exchanges. The law of supply and demand has been inoperative except in the case of extremely large or extremely small crops, and then has been used mainly to the advantage of the speculator." "Cooperative marketing, it is be lieved, will remedy, if not cure this evil by enabling the producer to Ejet'some advantage of the selling i end of the law of supply and de mand." For instance, if all the cotton produced'in a single year were un Tobacco Prices Please Growers Another Day Added to Re ceiving Schedule in State? Praise For Handling Raleigh, Aug. 10.?Enthusiasm of .the organized tobacco growers j over the successful operation of the cooperative markets caused heavy deliveries throughout the South Carolina belt in* spite of rains dur ing the past forty-eight hour3. Members brought tobacco in such large quantities to Darling ton, Lake City, Timmonsville and Kingstree all day long on Wednes day that the graders were unable to finish their work on that day. In view of this fact, the coopera tive markets will add another day to their schedule for receiving to bacco and will take in deliveries Mondays, Tuesday, Thursdays and Fridays beginning next Monday, August 14. The same enthusiasm on the part of member growers over the operation of their orderly system of marketing was experienced on Wednesday, as on Monday at the bpening sales. In many instances cash advances by the association were, equal to the entire price paid on the open ing day of last year's sales. Those opposed to the association are circulating all kind of false rumors, among them one to the effect that dissatisfied growers have taken tobacco to other warehouses than those of the association. A. R. Breedlove, assistant manager of the leaf department of the To bacco Growers' Cooperative Asso-; ciation, emphatically denies thi3 rumor. In a message to Raleigh headquarters today Mr. Breedlove accounted for this rumor by the fact that in some instances land lords ?nd tenants, one belonging to the association and the other not, have divided their tobacco on the association warehouse floors and non-members have tried to sell their tobacco to the association. At Kingstree the 100 per cent, cooperative market of Williams burg county, where more than 90 per cent of the growers are mem bers of the association, nearly 500.000 pounds were delivered to the association warehouses for the opening day. At Lake City, where the associa tion warehouse received close to 300.000 pounds, and many piles brought first advances of $15.75, W. B. Coker. a large grower, said: "I like the way you are handling it better than anything I ever saw." Every warehouseman of the as sociation- in Eastern North Caro lina received the following tele gram this week from T. C. Wat kins, manager of warehouses for the association: "Tell your farmer friends the opening of cooperative warehouses for receiving tobacco in South Carolina is a complete success. The organization worked perfectly. The tobacco was graded and handled to the entire satisfac tion of the members and practi cally every one expressed satisfac tion with the cash advance. "About 2.000.000 pounds were re ceived the first day. If any one doubts the satisfactory operation of the association in South Carolina ask them to come and investigate. "You cannot do the non-mem bers a greater service than sign them in this association." A serious shortage of reformed reformers is reported. The man who talks too much never does it well. r Recommends That tton and Tobacco ations der contract agreement with the association, cotton mills could run only until the carryover was ex hausted, and immediately produc ers would get the benefit of the law of supply and demand. If half the crop were tied up, mills would then exhaust the carryover and independent cotton and would respond to the law of supply and demand when they were forced to call for pledged cotton or shut down." "If no cotton is pledged, the mills buy from hand to mouth over a period ? of about eight months, in which time the pro ducers* interest has been eliminat- j ed and the mills finally pay a pro- j fit to the speculator." 'These are facts that every in-j formed farmer has known for all time and yet he has been impotent to remedy the condition." "Manufacturers will not permit their mills to lie idle, arid hence when the supply of independent cotton is exhausted, as it soon will be, with two very short crops in succession, they will have to come to the holders of pledged cotton and pay the price. The law of supply and demand will then oper ate as certainly as does the law of gravity in nature." "In a general condition of fair prices, the banks will be the first institutions to prosper and aside from this, as distributing agents j between the corporation and pro- I ducer, they will be made direct de-1 positors of proceeds of crop sales, j Banks, however, should not expect to have these side advantages handed to them on a silver waiter. The cooperative marketing asso ciations are now little better than in their infancy, they need help to enable them to grow to their' full stature. The banks should give this help and~give it ungrudgingly." CABINET BACKS . LLOYD GEORGE British and French Governs merits Stand Solidly Behind Polices of Premiers London, Aug. 10 (By the Asso ciated Press). ? Prime "Minister Lloyd George now has secured the full support of his cabinet for whatever policy may have been de cided upon by the British delegates to the- conference, which has been considering the German financial question while the French cabinet also has given Premier Pbincare a free hand. Thus, although the full conference has not yet formal ly rejected the proposals whereby France would consent to a mora torium for Germany, a deadlock seems to have been reached which, in the opinion of observers, will only permit the winding up of the conference when the allied states men meet tomorrow. Immediately after today's cabi net council Lloyd George reported the position to the king and then i notified the officials of the Eisted ford that he hopes to be in "Wales Saturday to attend the annual Welsh festival. It is still considered possible that tomorrow's meeting of the conference will produce some new development to prevent ? sudden termination and on the French side tonight the idea seemed to be that the experts committee would be en joined to reconsider their decisions. But it was admitted that anything of this nature would be only pro visional, and that still another allied conference will be required before any substantial settlement is possible. The members of the French del egation tonight were confident of an agreement- It is understood this was M. Poincare's own view of the situation. The French spokes man said tonight that M. Poin care and Lloyd George were stand ing nearer together since the con* ference met than had been com monly supposed outside. The sharp differences had been among the experts, and not between the two premiers. , The "spokesman added that the experts would be tcld their reports were incomplete and vague and said they would be asked to work out the details with greater precision. The unofficial French opinion is that any arrangements which are made will be provisional, and that a definite settlement must be at tempted again by the allied gov ernments later on. The Italian del egation has been informed that Lloyd George is preparing Some additional proposals with a view to meeting French aims. PCBLIC NOTICE. Notice is hereby given of a school election to be held in Man chester School District No. 4. at Bloomhill Thursday, August 24. be tween the hours of 7 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m.. for the purpose of voting an additional extra levy of two (2) mills, for* school pur poses. Only qualified electors, with tax receipts and registration i certificates, and who pay either real estate or personal property tax, may be allowed to vote. The trustees will act as managers. By order of the Sumter County Board of Education. F. M- COULTER, Chairman School District No. 4. August 7. 1022. Talk about freedom of the seas, how about feedom of the beaches? Prostet of Coal u Stride Settlement Meeting of Operators and Union Leaders at Geveland Moving Toward Agree ment Cleveland, Aug. 10 (By the As sociated Press).?Negotiations of a wage contract, which, according to sponsors of the plan, .will probably result in the breaking of the soft coal strike, were begun today by operators and miners, who decided to leave the details of settlement to a committee of 21 which will begin considering its report tomor row. The start was made after the policy committee of the United Mine Workers voted in favor of contracting with those operators of the central competitive field who had" enrolled in the conference. Approximately 20 per cent, of the normal coal production of the central competitive field was repre sented in the conference but this proportion did not deter President J. L. Lewis of the miners from predicting that a settlement at the conference here would result . in more than 300,000 miners return ing to work in the soft coal fields within a' week. "The miners have won this fight and it is practically over," said Mr. Lewis. * None of the Illinois or Indiana association of operators was repre sented in the conference as it set tled down to business but inde pendent operators were present from both states. While the con ference was at work here W. A. Glasgow of Philadelphia counsel for the miners, had gone to Toledo to confer with three members of the Illinois operators' scale com mittee and the hope was held out j among the conferees here that the i Illinois Operators* association [might yet join the conference'. Mr! ! Lewis, however, declared there had been no deviation from the union's stand against arbitration, a position to which the Illinois association have attributed their refusal to join the conference. The union's de mands for settlement center on the reestablishmeiit of the wage con tracts that expired last March 31, the eve of the strike that has tied upjthe coal industry for more than four months.1 This was made clear by Mr. Lewis at the meeting of the union policy committee when he declared "there will be no re duction of wages, and the miners will not go back to work except under the old contracts." No announcement came from the operators of their demands, j The committee Of 21 that will j frame the settlement * which will j be presented to the general con ?-ference for acceptance or rejection ! will include 11 miners and ten , operators. While several West Virginia operators had attended jthe conference they were not en rolled as conferees by the creden tials committee but they said they expected any contract they may make with the union would be bas ed on that negotiated at the con ference. The union's purpose to adopt any -scale made here as a basis for set tlements throughout the soft coal industry was shown at the policy committee meeting, after which Mr. Lewis declared that "when a scale is made here, 75 per cent, of all bituminous tonnage now on strike will sign that scale." j escape; from penitentiary Columbia, Aug. 11.?Governor Harvey *5s making an investigation of the e/scape of Dulius Seiaro, the convict who made a successful get away from the state penitentiary Wednesday. The penitentiary ofil i cials are also making a probe of the man's escape, but as yet noth I ing has been unearthed to show i how the man got away. It is be lieved that he went through the gates under a motor truck.' ?s trucks^ have to enter the prison yard frequently, to' bring' in provis- j ions and other supplies, and to take out the chairs made in the ! chair factory. The governor stated today that he was of the opinion that Dulius Seiaro is the man who robbed his brother's home in Charleston some months ago. The man was sent up for ten years. The governor recently received a j request from a Massachusetts law I yer for a ' pardon for this man. i What interest the Massachusetts lawyer has in the man is not known- ' However, it is certain ! the governor will not grant Seiaro ! any measure of executive clemency, j Seiaro is a Greek. He is from j the north. He was wanted for a j series of robberies, at many points j up and down the Atlantic coast, i When he entered the home of j Governor Harvey's brother, he stole a heart-shrped watch, and this unusual piece of jewelry led to his arrest. attack'on student Atlanta. Aug. 10.?A Georgia j Tech student named Hill, who has I been working during vacation at jthe Western & Atlantic railroad ! yards here, was beaten with a club I by six men today as he left the i yards, according to a report he j made to Clint W. Hager, federal j attorney. i The lad, who appeared with his ' face swollen and his legs bruised. I said he was accused by his assail I ants of being a strikebreaker. He 1 declined to give his full name. De j partment of justice officials im mediately began an investigation, but no arrests had been made. Detroit man who struck a match to look at his gas is learning to read with his fingers. Be careful how you swap con fidences or you will get cheated. Citizens Condemn Beaufort Sheriff Outspoken Objection to Fa voritism in Treatment of . Prisoner Beaufort, Aug. 10.?A mass meeting that crowded the court | house tonight voted to instruct the i chairman to appoint a committee of j three citizens to collect, prepare and present evidence against Sher- j iff J. H. Bailey before the grand | jury. This grew out of his refusal] and failure to place Ralph E. j Brown in jail as directed in the I coroner's commitment, which found I at the inquest yesterday that j Brown killed T. P. L. Bettison. The j vote was unanimous except for a i brother of Brown. ; The sheriff kept the prisoner at his home while the law requires he be put in jail. Early in the after noon over 100 citizens met and sent a committee to the sheriff asking him to meet with them and ex plain his action. This he refused to do. Solicitor Murdaugh was on his way from Hampton and the meeting was adjourned to the even- 1 ing. The solicitor was present then and advised with the meeting as to the sheriff's action. Just fore the evening meeting the sher* iff placed his prisoner in jail, bat again refused to attend the meet* ing. Condemnation was expressed at the fact that the sheriffs at torney and avisor is the attorney for the defense in the case against Brown. Condemnation of the city govern ment for alleged leniency toward Brown in former difficulties was general, and a motion was carried, 88 to 38, asking for the resigna tion of the three commissioners, over two-thirds refraining from" voting on this issue, owing in part to the absence of the mayor. Many women attended and voted., In tense feeling was manifest in the applause and speeches but the bssi of order was maintained. The committee sent to the sheriff was Alan Paul, L. H. Hall and Gus San ders, county treasurer. Niels Ghristensen was chairman of the meeting and Alan Paul secretary. J. H. Bellamy and William Atl man made the motion that car ried. The solicitor has refused to consent to a request for bail for Brown. In the news account sent out yesterday it was stated that. Betti son was killed while seated. A further examination of the testi mony shows that at the coroner's inquest no direct evidence was presented to that effect. Brown claims self defense in his request for bail. ASYLUM ' OVERCROWDED . - Board Instructs Superintend* ent WiHiattis to Parole as Many Patients as Possible Columbia, - Aug. 11.?Supt. Fred C. Williams of the State hospital was instructed by the board of re gents of that institution at; its meeting yesterday to confer with the judges of probate throughout the state and to ask them to con sider only those patients applying for admission to the State hospital iwho are dangerous or violent. The board further instructed Dr. Wil liams to parole all those patients now in the hospital who can pos sibly be paroled in order to relieve [the overcrowded condition of the institution and to leave free the few vacant beds for emergency pa tients. Yesterday there were 2*44 S pa tients being cared for at the State hospital and Dr. Williams says the overcrowded condition grows more acute each day. ABRUZZI RTE?New crop se lected recleaned seed $2.50 per bushel Wheat: Selected Vir ginia, Blue Stem/Fulcaster and Leap's Prolific $2.50 per bushel. Place your orders now and be certain to secure first class seed. Sumter Roller Mills. PRICE ADVANCES IN COAL NOTED Interstate Ctomanerce Com mission Asked to Take Acf tion Washington, Aug. 10.?Use-- of the emergency powers of the In terstate Commerce Commission to. jbring into line coal operators, who I are failing to cooperate with thfi| j lederal fuel organization , in the-; i control of prices, was under coflf isideration today by the central. I coal committee. The government's defense against price advances abo\*e the maximum charges agreed upon by producing - operators with Secretary Hoover 'was declared to he in the power jof the Interstate Commerce Com I mission to allocate coal cars soy [that mines boosting prices would.' {be without transportation facilities. ! Department of Justice officials j connected with the federal*fuel or jganization were said to have ad ; vised the committee that the com j mission had ample authority ufider ! the law to distribute cars to the j mines as to effectively owstrol their; j charges. j Alabama operators, Mr. Hoover* announced today, have broken! > ; away from their fair price agree-?-* ;ments made with him and, he add-? j ed. Governor Kilby, of Alabama?? j will be asked to take steps to pro-S ! tect consumers in that State against? j rising prices. j Operators in other districts arej j showing sighs of slipping frewnf. j their stand with the fair price p*ro-?: ! gram? if was said at the commit-^ i tee. Inquiry is being made, Mr. Hoo-^ ver said, as to what action the fed-^ eral organization can take in casesif where operators fail to- cooperateV in the matter of price control. In* ? some States he .said, organization' ! against profiteering Is going for-7 ! ward vigorously, but in other States. jit has not progressed as rapides*'.": ! as desired. Railroad service out of the pro-? duclng coal fields, he asserted, was, " steadily improving, and car sappi^M had improved steadily during thef, past two weeks as a result of the" j priority system established by tfcej * federal organization. Now they tell woman low heels" mean fiat feet. Last year they said, high heels means flat heads. Summer is the silly season. A% Alabama man is suing a girl for breach of promise. _ _j?OK THC RELtElv OF. Pain in theStomachvatid, Bowels, Intestina! Cramp Colic, Diar rhoea - SOLO EYEPtYWHERE - HE HAS A FORTUNE. We mean tha boy who has one hundred dollars that ha himself has made and saved, he feels like a millionaire. He has learned many a lesson by this. He has caught the thrift habit He has learned to do without unnecessary things. He ceases to squander his money. His judgment of values is better. He is all in all a much better boy. How about your boy. Has he got the habit yet? Ii not better get him started at once. This bank will be pleased to handle his account* THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OP SUMTER, S. C. The National Bank of South Carolina Of Smnter, S. C. * The Bank With the Chime Clock. The Most Painstaking SEK VICE with COURTESY Capital ?300,009 Surplus and Profits $SOO,000 STRONG AND PROGRESSIVE Give os the Pleasure of Serving YOU. C. G. ROWLAND, Pres. HARLE ROWLAND, Cashier