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NOTES OF CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS Schools W?I Reopen on Fifth of September. Tuition Fees For Non-Residents The public schools of the city will reopen on the fifth of Sep tember. Last year they reopened on the sixth. ? A meeting: of all the teachers of .the city schools will be held on Monday the fourth of September. This is a very important meeting because arrangements are definite ly made on that day so that work may proceed from the very first without any confusion. The list of: books will be issued before the j opening of school: all schedules will be arranged, and just as was! the case last year the schools will} "he down at work on the second} day of the opening of school. The parents will bear this in mind and will see to it that their children are present on the opening day. Those who come in late are always em barrassed by the delay. Pupils who have never been to school before will report at the of ""fice of the superintendent on Wed nesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sat urday before the opening of school. Those pupils who have any ex aminations to stand for any reason will report, at 21 o'clock on Hon- j day the fourth of September at the Qlrls' High school building. All pupils below the high school wlio do not live in the city wili pay a tuition fee of $3 a month for ten months of school. The fee for the first month of school must be paid cji the opening day ' of school. The Board of Education has directed the superintendent to enforce the rule rigidly. AU pa trons of the school who have prop erty in the city will be given credit for the educational tax that they pay in the city. This amount is j deducted from the total amount .of tuition that they , are expected to pay during the year. The tuition fee3 of students, who attend High School from the county are paid by the state of South Carolina; the Sumter High school being a regular State High school. Gun Club Shoot. The clouds and rain did not de ter a number of shooters from en joying themselves smashing the elusive clay targets Thursday after noon, and most of the shooting was done in a drizzling rain. The trapshooting and golf bugs Ure very numerous around Sumter ?t present, and are daily increasing .much interest being manifested in both sports, neither of which can he too highly praised, as they give 4he~-hjusiness \ man's mind a rest from his cares and troubles, and trains the eyes, nerves and muscles. " Tnere is room for a few more members to the Gun and Golf clubs. Come out: Thursday after noons at the Gun club; any old time at the Golf club. Broke . Shot L V." Plowden .1 8S 100 G W. Bradford_ 69 75 Robert Sfaelor 68 75 VWiUieShaw._ 48 50 ??-.C. Boykin 47 50 tlake Harvin- ._ 45 50 W. R. Plowden_ 43 50 Dr. E. P. DuRant-- 42 50, W. R. Young _ . 39 s 50 j P. if. Parrott 34 50-j W. K. Wright __ 40 50] Dug Moses 23 25 i H. L. Tisdale 21 251 E. H. Moses. 20 25: A. E. Tisdale _ 16 25 < There Is an abundance of land j "in Sumter county suitable for' dairying and livestock raising, and J much of the acreage is for salef or rent. If Mr. McKeand has aj proposition that is on a business! "basis he will find no difficulty in! putting it over in Sumter county, i A TREAT FOR j TIRED EYES j It is hard to realize until; you experience it what a relief! > i . - . ? ? j properly fitted glasses are for j tired eyes.^ | Print becomes clear and! - - . j black, one sees distinctly, and; the strain which caused the; eyes to feel heavy, itch, smart I and water is done away with, j .... ? If your eyes get tired and 1 your sight is not as keen as formerly, a pair of our glasses Will be a great benefit and* comfort to you. Come in to- j day and- have the examination \- j made. It does not take long; ? II and it is no way disagreeable. G. C. COOPER I Optometrist mi OUNTY NEWS i - I . j Letter From Mr. E. W. Dabhs. j -Tryon, Aug; 16.?Owing: to the i bad roads from Black River to Dal- j zell and from the Sumter line to j Boykins* mill, returned last Sat urday by way of Mayesville, St. Charles. Mannville, Hammett's X Roads and the Bishopville-Camden road 11 miles west of Bishopville. Jb this point we saw numerous i signs of hoods oi: rain in the past! few days. In fact signs of big rains 1 were plentiful to Kershaw but be ing on better kept up roads did not slow us' down as on this short cut. We saved 4 miles over going by t Bishopville and three miles over gcing by- Sumter, and had a better road than either From Kershaw to the, mountains there have been no h?avy rains, just good seasons. We reached Mr. Glascock's just above Ft. Lawn at L2 o'clock, 4 1-2 hours for the trip- That afternoon Mr. Glascoek and I went to Ches ter over the Calhoun highway from Ft. Lawn. It is not so good a road as the/Great Falls road. Visited several farms and talked with the owners about cattle and boll wee vils.. The weevils will cut their crop very much like Sumter's crop was cut last year. There is much good corn on the road all the way up from John Wilson's near Brick church to the mountains. I found the distance from Spar tanburg to Salem only 2.8 miles greater by Lancaster to Chester, than by Great Falls. Sunday we attended service at Neely's Creek, the big A- R. P.. church to which the Glascocks be long. It is a fine church\ with large congregation of fine looking people. Many children and young people. A good preacher, who believes in the Bible as the word of God and the only rule of faith and prac tice. This section is thickly set tled with prosperous farmers, some of whom have accumulated wealth. At night we went to the closing service of a protracted revival meeting at Harmony, a large brick church that would do credit to any small city. The cemetery contains 3 or 4 acres extending along the public road. It is the best kept country grave yard I know of ex cept Bethel near Oswego, and is fully as clean and neat as Bethel. There are many neat tombstones and some fine monuments, the finest to Jim Nunnery who was kill ed in France i3 near the center of' the grounds. There must have been a hun dred autos on the grounds, some from Chester 22 miles away. This is a strong Baptist church and the pastor, Dr. Pittman, was raised in the community. His sermon was a strong one. presenting phases of j the* subject of eternal jmnishmeat that I. had never heard before and j all backed by the Bible and ob servations of every-day life that can not be gainsaid. His text was "And these shall go* away' into everlasting punishment; but the righteous into life eternal." Again a big congregation of fine looking men and women with many chil dre to carry on the good work of their parents. On account of this being a thickly settled country, che farms are not so large as in somo sections, and many young men and women are constantly going out to bless other sections. Har mony is about two miles south of the York-Chester line and Neely's Creek about the same distance north of the line. I was glad of this opportunity to see more of j the farms and people than when | just passing through. f Monday morning we came on to 1 Tryon by way of Rock Hill, York | and King's Mountain. The road j from York to King's Mountain was very little better than from Fort j Lawn to Chester, and the distance 23 miles farther to Spartanburg! makes it not worth while except for what one can see of the crops, j We reached the Ref uge about 1:30. i It had turned warmer and this; part of the trip was more fatiguing than Saturday's. While we were having floods of rain in Sumter county. Lancaster, Chester, York, Cherokee. Spartanburg and Polk county. X. C, were having scatter- j ed showers. Some farmers com plaining of lack of rain. Mr. Glasscock said the seasons about his place could not have been j better. Tuesday and today we ate! in the clouds and light showers, j E. W. Dabbs. \ -? Death. Mr. W. A. Weldon. aged 76. passed away at his home, near Providence at 6 p. m. Wednesday. Mr. Weldon was a Confederate veteran, and has been a resident o;f Sumter county all of his life. The funeral was held at Providence i church Thursday afternoon at 5 o'clock. He is survived by his wife, two sons, and four daugh ters. The candidates for the legisla ture should have a definite plan in mind for obtaining the en?ct ment of a law for the protection | and upkeep of the good roads that are now being built in thte coun ty at a cost of approximately three : million dollars. If log mis and 1 big overweight trucks are permitted j to be used on the roads quick de-?; struction will result and the money spent will be a total loss. YVitnin! a few years the roads will be in; worse condition than ever and all j that Sumter county will have to j show for the great expenditure will be the big bond issue. An automobile was seen on the; streets of Sumter this week that, displayed a license tax tag for the j year 1921. That was perhaps, bet-j ter than no tag at all, although j some motor vehicles are still run- I ning around tagless and get by j with it. i i KEMOVXXC! ALCOHOL PLANT. - i DuPonts Find Process Used at Georgetown Unprofitable (Georgetown Times). The E. B. Leaf company of Phil adelphia, which purchased the al cohol plant of E. I. DuPont com pany, located at the A. C. L. cor poration, has a crew of men here dismantling the plant. John Boyt, who managed the plant for the DuPont company, was relieved as manager July 31. when it was sold. The main cause for the removal of the alcohol plant was the lack of j demand for alcohol at the present time, which causes the market to i be way below the cost of produc- j tion, also the market is flooded, with molasses from which alcohol can be produced at less expense than from saw dust, the raw pro duct from which this plant made; alcohol. Sumter County Survey. The Young Men's B, u s i n e s s j League wishes to call attention j again to the people of Sumter that i it will be glad to give copies of! the survey to those interested in! having them. It is especially anx ious that business houses send copies to out of town business con nections where they think the plac ing of such copies will do good. Although the league does not wish j the surveys to be scattered prorni?- j cuously where they will only go into the waste basket, it does wish them circulated far and wide for the bnefit of Sumter county. The surveys are at the office of Herbert A. Moses who will be glad to give copies to interested parties.? Up. In The Blue Ridge. Some years ago a man, just re- j turned from the Blue Ridge,' re-1 marked. "I have just returned from j the Blue Ridge where people never j die. They live to extreme old age, j dry up, are then sacked and label- I ed, then hung upon the wall for j future reference. Wishing to learn J the history within their life tima j you simply take a bag labeled to in- 1 elude that time, drop *it into a! large kettle of tepid water and! when it has swollen to life-like j proportions, thne you ask its oc- j cupant for the information, and; this done the bag is again hung j upon the wall." We do not vouch for'the truth-j fulness of the above but we learned j on good authority of very ancient: people, one a hundred and seven j years old, a number of others more j than ninety, among them an old i lady who walks all over the coun-; try- ' Think of only five physicians-in} Avery county. Not a doctor's j paradise, eh ? This I heard up there: Aj stranger in the country beheld j with astonishment an ancient of | days eighty-two years old, weep- ] ing bitterly,' touched by the sight,, drew near to learn the cause. 'T | threw a stone at my grandfather ? and my father whipped me for iL' j A place of stalwart manhood, j We made the acquaintance of aj Mr. Bone, of descent from Daniel! Boone, six feet three, weight one eighty-five, the runt of a family of j five boys. Robt Wiseman, * Sr., ninety-two! years old (we passed near to his home returning from Buck Hill),*] fifty years ago held . a two years j old bear by a hind leg, walking! around a tree with him, Jill another I brought a rifle, a fourth of a j mile and killed it. In my last I spoke of the splendid tables they set, and can not begin! to enumerate the toothsome eat- j ables. delicacies, all produced on ; the ground if we except the sugar j and coffee. They live, and, seven days in the week. Upon inquiry we were told: i "We do not have much money, but. a plenty to meet our needs." It! comes out of wood. lumber, - hay, j corn, honey, poultry, hogs, cows j and sheep, etc. Can't we do these j things? I really think so, but! must buckle down ourselves. "But a lot of rough necks-" There you miss it again. The com- j mumty of which we have written, thoroughly rural, would compare j favorably with most others in re- i finement, culture, education, etc.! They are progressive in many ways. Theirs is the old time hospitality, every one keeping open house. Strange to?say the rainfall with! them this year is little above nor- \ mal save in the earlier months of; the year. Their crops of corn are j splendid, their small grain ordinary; and so their fruit. Much attention is paid to educa-! tion. They have splendid, - well*i eo.uipped academies under capable 1 management, good churches, etc. j and their roads will soon be un surpassed. "Hagood." R'embert, Aug. 15. ? - The schools- of Sumter county, j which will open for the fall term within a few weeks, face a most se rious financial situation- Owing to i the non-payment of taxes in 1!)20 j and 1921 the school funds have1 been at such a low ebb in a major- ! ity. of districts that approximate-' ly $35,000 was borrowed from the i banks to keep the schools open this spring. This money must be re- i paid and until the outstanding loans are paid no more can be negotiat- i ed. School trustees will be forced to adopt a policy of rigid economy, i reduction of expanses by shorten ing the terms and cutting salaries being unavoidable. -. ? ? ? A rolling stone is often broke. These hot days always come at the wrong time of the year. A man sizes things ujj while a! grouch sizes things down. Every time we think of the coal strike we put more moth balls in our winter underwear. ? ? Every woman's ambition is to j look as well as she thinks she looks. 1 IKRASSNOFF TO REARDON i ______ j Further Comment on the Bond Issue j Editor Daily Item: J I was in hopes that some one j would, take my part "in answering or adding a few words, on the $250, 000 bond issue, for additional pav ing in Sumter, which Mr. E. I. Reardon so strongly favors in his communication of the 12th. T would not mention his name, had he not transgressed the convention I al usage of not mentioning names ! in connection with personal atti I tudes on public problems, i Xot wishing to disappoint Mr. ! Reardon to hear from me on this I subject I have a good mind to op pose any improvement in our city or county highways for several reasons. First, because he is in favor of it by exhausting Webster hat and heel, leaving no material for my arguments. Then too, I ob ject to paying out twentieth of mills. I do not know how much it amounts to in money, but if it compares to Second Mill or the flour mill I would hate to be de prived of either one of them, nor of any meals of the day that I en joy so much. (With apologies to the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce). Another reason against im provements, is that it will deprive some of our automobile dealers of their business, as this will elim inate a great deal of wear and tear of our vehicles, and diminish their business, so that it ,will be an un just taxation without enumera tion and against the spirit and in tent of our constitution. The elim ination of dirt and dust will de prive our pleasures of having our cars washed and polished as often as we would like, and the washing stations will be the sufferers. We are also n God-fearing peo ple, and you know that the earth was not created hardsurfaced, so. why should we interfere and de face the earth by artificial means? a blasphemous proceeding. I could have enumerated many other reasons against the issue of additional bonds for improvement, but I do not feel like furnishing Mr. Reardon with new material for using up the columns of the Sumter Item with free advertisement and the waste of paper and ink that be longs to the* Sumter County Cham ber of Commerce, in order that he may get another chance for a free dinner at Pinewood, Dalzell or Summerton. No wonder he is so enthusiastic about these booster trips. I remember one time, of paying for him for a kosher din ner, and since then he approached me twice to lend him 25c, and I had to plead poverty, because I knew that the surplus funds of the j Chamber of Commerce were not sufficient to guarantee the amount.] Moria, when you touch a hor-] net's nest, you should expect to be stung. By the time the ballot j boxes open to cast my vote, I am liable to change my mind. This depends upon the issues involved, compatible with the needs of our community. Respectfully. S. L. Krasnoff. Sumter, Aug. 16 , . , .. Sumter and Cotton Mills. Editor Daily Item: -In a recent issue of your excel lent paper appeared articles in i reference to establishing a cotton mill in your live, wide-awake, thriving; enterprising city. Just i why it has not been done hereto fore one fails to understand, be cause there are plenty of towns in the state, some even near us. that have one. two and three plants well capitalized, and successful, and the wonder of the whole country has j been that such a place as Sumter j with ample capital of brawn, mon- j ey, brain, had none. On every J hand, everywhere the question has been persistently propounded: j What's the matter with Sumter?! What indeed but that her cur/.enry I had, in their headlong rush alter j other, sometimes poor, investments, never stopped to consider serious ly such a matter. I suspect we would even now be in the same old rut were it not that our northern neighbors, seeing we were asleep to our best interests, blind to the j many advantages we are heir to by j reason of location, climate, etc., is creeping around and in many cases becomes a permanent tenant before we are aware of his presece.e His argument, that if with high cost of living, labor, transportation j of material he succeeds in the dis taxit, inhospitable north, down here, j with everything in his favor, he! has a bonanza, and it is true. But aside from the dividends j arising from such investments is the consideration of the easing it affords in all lines of other trade, j because of the market at home of [ our country products, the in- j crease of trade in all manner of' merchandise, etc. It is surely an opportune move ment that should, doubtless will, have the encouragement, support of the rank and file of the staunch yeomanry of our, in all other re spects, thoroughly progressive i county. ! Have just returned from the! Piedmont where mills abound, and ' found the country people in fine spirits because of the constant in flux of money from the sale Of any. and all scanner of truck. Yes. the boll weevil is there in force, but they are in good heart been use the condition of things does not make ; them dependent on cotton. Long many of us have deplored the ab sence of cotton mills in and ; around Sumter. Here's hoping a : brighter day is just ahead of us. j "Hagood." j Rembert, Aug. 1 7. m m m An optimist is a man who thinks' the world is as it is. - Th average man never reaches j his gcai until he reaches his gold. Welfare Workers j Give Up Places ;H. C. Brearley and Miss Louise Bishop Resign at Board Meeting j Columbia. Aug. 18. ? H. C. Brearley and Miss Louise E. Bish op, assistant secretary and field agent, respectively, of the state j board of public welfare, resigned I Their positions at a meeting of the j i board of that organization held j j yesterday morning in the office of j j the governor. These resignations; become effective September 15 and j were accepted by the board with | j regret and also with appreciative i ! remarks concerning the services'of; [Mr. Brearley and Miss Bishop, i Ellison Capers, Jr., county agent I j for the board, was elected by the j I board to succeed Mr. Brearley. but! I the election of a psychologist to j j take Miss Bishop's place was de- j Iferred. j Mr. Brearley resigns his position j jto go into school work again. He] i has accepted a position in the ; ! English department -of the high, j school in Durham. N. C. and will I 'also study psychology at the uni-j versity "of North Carolina He has| ! been connected with the state j j board of public welfare for the i f last two and a half years, having gone there from the Columbia high school where he was an instructor j in. the department of English. He is an A. B. and M. A. graduate {.of the University of South Carolina ] and an ex-service man. He has j j done distinctive work in formulat- I j ing methods of inspection and in ! I carrying these methods into effect, j Miss Bishop came to the board; four years ago. She is a gradu ate of Vassar and took special work i j at Columbia university. She has, also done psychological work . at J (several large northern institutions. } While her official title with the (state board of public welfare is ?that of field agent she has done! j the psychological testing of the j I cases handled by the welfare board, j j She has made many friends in Co- j j lumbia and throughout the state! j who will regret that she has re-1 j signed her position to return to her i shome in New Haven. Conn, j John H. Martin superintendent j ?of the state industrial school for j i boys, was present at this board ! meeting and reported the condition j of his institution S. A. Lindsay, j superintendent of the state re j formatory for negro boys, and Dr. j B. O. Whitten. superintendent of jthe'state school for feeble-minded, {were also present and made re- j j ports of their institutions. All of j.these superintendents reported i their schools as being in a flourish ing condition A number of persons were pa roled from the industrial schools and reformatory with the provision . that the office of the state board of i : public . welfare after making a1 j study or the home conditions of the ! J persons paroled, made a favorable - j recommendation. j The following members of the j board were present at the meeting t, yesterday: Governor Harvey, Dr. j j C. C. Ceer of Greenville. B. H. j Boyd of Clinton. Walter B. Wilbur j of Charleston, Robert Moorrnan of j Columbia. Dr. L. Rosa H. Gantt of J Spartanburg. Secretary G. Crof t j ! Williams, and Assistant Secretary j l-H. C. Brearley. j THE STATE FAIR j j ??? ( I Management Working Hard | to Make Annual Fair Best! Ever Held Columbia, Aug. IS.?The State! Fair management announced to-1 day that a special .effort would be | made this year to interest the i ! school children in the big expo | sition. Tuesday. October 24. the j second day of the State Fair, has S been officially designated as Chil I dren's Day- The gate admission ! ! for that date will be reduced to ten ; j cents for children and it is hoped! i that this will attract not less than j thirty thousand school children.; jThe railroads are co-operating; with the fair officials and especial-' ; ly low rates will prevail on all lines ? [entering the capital city. Many; [special events are being program-! med for Children's Day. full an- i nouncement of which will be made in the near future. The State Fair amusement pro-: gram this year will be the most elaborate .ever presented. Harness and running races will be featured; five days, while on the closing j date. October 2S. the speed course^ will be devoted to professional auto races. Some of the more noted dirt track drivers will be seen in j action over the new track, includ- j ing Sig Haughdal, world's cham- j pion. Tn addition to the racing j features, a score of high class cir cus acts will be presented eac.i j day and night. . Stupendous dis plays of fireworks will be pro- j gram med nightly. The famous < Johnny J. Jones shows will occupy | the Joy Plaza with myriad3 ?Ell sterling tented attractions and rid- : ing devic es. The combined amuse- I ments will be of such magnitude j that they cannot fail to please all; classes of visitors. The T.?22 premium list has ju?>l been received from the printer. I*. contains many new classifications .-:nd increased premiums that should serve to bring out a more : extensive and diversified exhibit. ; particularly in the agricultural and women's departments. Persons con- j templating exhibiting may secure a I'opy of the new premium list by addressing the State Fair at Co lumbia. American tourists spent $75.000,-1 nun in Canda last year. How many quarts is that? Wives of great men often remind : them. ? ? ? We shall all get a cnange of cli matesooa, - J__fc DINNER AT PINEWOOD Secretary Reardon, Publicity Agent, Extends an Invita tion to the Public All good Baptists and all other Citizens of Sumter . and Sumter county, those who believe in and those who do not'espouse immer-] sion. but who like to get on thej outside of good things to eat?allj and singular, please sit up and take notice because the dear ladies of the Pinewood Baptist church are' now talking, but you can't hear them because the telephone ex change i?%* Pinewood was burned down several months ago. but the ladies are talking still and talking again just the same. And they| have requested'the secretary of the; Sumter Chamber of Commerce to! help them by recording and pub-1 lishing what the ladies are saying and announce that notwithstanding the ladies of Dalzell put on as tine a dinner Friday as ever mortal man or immortal woman ate?yet the Pinewood ladies say they are going to frame up a cricken din : ner and barbecue special and ae ! cessories at Pinewood on Wednes day. August the 23rd that will j never be forgotten by those who I are so fortunate as to be able to partake thereof. All that you can j eat and fill and refill j'our plates jas many times as you like for the I inconsiderable, infinitesimal, insig | nificant sum of four bits?fifty cents. In plain English, a half of j a dollar. This is straight goods. ! not "hot air." The proceeds for i the benefit of the Pinewood Bap tist church and this feast to be j spread immediately following the I feast of political discussions by nu 'merous candidates for county of I flees and solicitor. Sumter county is the greatest i place in the world to be in just ! now in particular because about I twice a week ladies of different I sections of the county are in a friendly rivalry to see who can put j on the most delicious dinners for praetically nothing, considering the j quality and quantity for the price asked. Pinewood is rr Sumter county town of which we are all proud. j The Baptist church in that place was a few months ago badly dam aged by a wind storm and the la ! d:es are endeavoring to raise money with which to reconstruct and otherwise remedy the damage. They are asking all Sumter business and professional men with whom these ladies and their husbands and sons and daughters spend many thou sands of dollars every year to go to Pinewood on Wednesday, Aug ust 23rd and cooperate with them like Pinewood has been cooperating with Sumter's merchants and other business concerns for many years. Dinner will be served about 1 p.; m. and those who wish to purchase extra dinners to bring back to the dear ones at home. If any of the dear ones are left or allow them selves to be left at home, if you just take a bucket to fetch back j the dinner?but don't take a wa-j ter bucket or a wash tub for this, purpose. No man knows how long these weekly events of gastromomi- | cal importance .will last. So get j ready to go to Pinewood next Wed nesday and enjoy yourself arid j mingle with and be . good friends' with hundreds of the best friends Sumter ever had, and with as fine men and women as ever lived. There are dozens of good Sumter citizens who for several years have been suffering from constitutional ] grouches and* "cold feet" and whose | memories have grown rusty wor rying about the money they didn't make since the boll weevil turned democrat and adopted Sumter county as its home, and since the ] deflation of credits and business j slump set i?; who would be bene- j Sted physically,, mentally, and fin ancially if they would-only just get out in the country and eat a few of the picnic dinners the ladies are serving, and mingle with * people who know how to enjoy life. It must be terrible to be rich anyhow if you have no appetite for the hundreds of good things Sumter county women know how to cook. Pinewood ladies are expert cooks i and they and their husbands know how to run a farm on the "live at home" methods.. The condition of the main public i roads leading into the city is worse than in many years, and this state | of affairs is not due entirely to the j work that is being done by the1 hard surface contractors. It is true that the Mayesville road, the Bishopville road. the Stateburg Camden read, and the Second Mill Pinewood road are in bad condi tion from travel in consequence of the construction work that is un derway: l>ur the Shiloli road and Oswego road are in equally bad, if j not worse, condition in some places, j The continued heavy rains, during the past several weeks, have dam- | aged all roads and util the daily rains cease it will be impossible to i make repairs. The bad conditions I of all the roads, i i conjunction i with the blocking of some of the main thoroughfares while* the paving is being done, is a serious inconvenience to the people of the surrounding county who accus-1 tomed to doing their trading here. ' and the merchants are also feeling; it adversely. Every effort should be made to complete the paving as quickly as possible, and to hate] the other roads repaired. The bad | roads are interfering with the to-1 bacco market and cotton will be' moving within the next two weeks j The business of Sumter is depend- j ent upon the marketing of cotton,! tobacco and other farm produce and its avenues of transportation j should not be blocked any longer; than is absolutely unavoidable. Too many chaperones are out of work. Don't give advice unless you use the same brand. RAIL STRIKE CAUSING BLOODSHED : - Railroad Workers Beaten;! Heavy Shooting at Way-! 1 cross - I ! Augusta Ga., Aug. IS.?Frank! ! Hall Gl Vidalia. Ca.. H. ?/Cawleyj ! of Harlem. Ga.. and J. T. Clase, em- j ! ployed at the Georgia Railroad j shops here were tonight attacked j j on Broad street by a crowd of men j and severely beaten. Hall received wounds about the head. The in- j j?red men were carried to the Uni- . versity . Hospital. The wounded j men were unable to identify anyj oi their assailants. _ J Girt Shot. j Wayoross,' Ga., Aug. 18.?In an | exchange of more than 50 shots i i between guards at the Atlantic j Coast Line shops here and three I groups of unknown rhen, Miss Edna j Sehofield. 15. daughter of a strik-'. I ing shopman, was shot and serious- j ly injured. The young lady was j returning home from the city and | passed the shops at the time the j I shooting was in progress, she told' I the police today. Pipe Line Cut. Rocky Mount. X. C. Aug. 18.? A pipe line from the pump station to the Atlantic Coast Line shops was cut this morning, shutting off the supply of water and - when workers employed in the shops were sent to repair the break they were assaulted with dead rats and jeered at by a crowd of strike sym pathizers, according to police re ports. A force of deputies from the sheriff's office at Nashville this afternoon accompanied workmen' who repaired the damage. Electric! feed wires used to operate machin ery in the pumping station Were also cut. Tonight it was reported to the office that the operator of i the searchlight used on the yards ! since the strike was fired at but' not hit. Cut and Bruised. Raleigh. X. C, Aug. 18.?Cut! land bruised about the face' and.! 'head C. A. Burnett. Seaboard guard,} reported to the police tonight that i he and a companion by the name j of Cranford, who is timekeeper for! the Seaboard guards, were assault-[ .ed by eight men with black jacks f and iron pipes tonight as they left! the Seaboard office building. Warrants Issued. Macon. Aug. IS.?Eight warrants' were issued here today charging] railroad strikers with assault and I battery and interfering with labor . in connection with am alleged at tack upon a negro employe/of the Southern Railway early this week. A road hog can't decide which] half of the road he wants to use. I CHARLESTON BANK FAILURE Citizens' Bank Closes Door^ and Bank of Charlestom Buys Building 4 Charleston. Aug. 17.?Foliow-I ing closely on the announcement of the Citizens' bank directorsi that the doors of this institution^ would not be opened for business^ today, this decision' having beenT reached because of heavy with-c drawals of deposits, and that the* aVfairs of the bank had been turn^ ed over to the state bank examin er, came a statement that* thev bank's building on King street^ with its vault and fixtures, had beeni sold to the Bank of Charleston. It is understood that about $150,000f will be paid for the property,* which ,is considerably more than/ the book value. While no -state ment from the Bank of CharlesQ ton could be obtained today as to", what would be done with the.nrop-: erty. when it wa# finally "acquired/* it is probable that branch offices^ will be opened at the King street; location hy*the purchaser. This ad vantageous sale of its property wilt enable the Citizens' bank to realize?.: promptly on a valuable assets to th^ greater benefit of depositors and' others interested. The- Citlzeixs'f bank has been a King street instil tution for several years and has? been very active. Its directo*s are confident that its other assets will be? disposed of at good figures, makisgj possible the quick liquidation desir^? *? ' . .-. I It is thV Times , are net hard, people who are. New Lefever Nitro-J Special only $29?0#j O. K-'ed and purchased quantities by ? the U Navy. Weil fj considering the. Bui it to shoot, and stand as use as the expensive Most dur lock-ever in a gun first iock-3 fired overj ?7,Q00l 7 _ -t Every ?tt? proofteetea vrtth an ???-,. ?, -?v?M i t re me. load. A'-^^,T1^^3HIp'K? standard ixed eun built of in 20-?a. 28. In., U-ga. 28 im, and _ 12-83.28 and 30 in. With 141.1. stock acd about Vj drop. A Lefever .-won* w&rid's championship.at the Olympic games in London. Le-1 fever has stood for servics,' _ durability for over., 50 ? yntr H 5 WRITE FOR CATALOGUE LeFew Arms Co., Bwirfoaa,"U. wi INTERNATIONAL FEEDS We are sole agentsf for the International Sugar Feed Company, of Memphis, Tennessee, and havf just received a car load of their products which we are offering at very attractive prices, as follows: Special Dairy Feedi?J_$2,00 per Sack International Cow Feed~$2.75 per Sack Dan Patch Horse Feed?$2.25 per Sack Honor Horse Feed__$2.35 per Sack Makemeat Hog Feted_$2.25 per Sack Hummer Hog Feed??$2,00 per Sack Jewel Hen Feed?_-$2?50 per Sack Jewel Egg Mash, 25-lb. Sacks, 90c per Sack All except Jewel Egg Mash is put np in 100-lb. sacks. These people, as their name indicates, do business throughout the world and they stand squarely be hind every sack of goods they sell, and as their rep resentatives we can be depended upon to do the sam$. There are goods on the market selling for more money, but as they guarantee their's equal to any, - and superior to most, WHY PAY MORE. You hav* a chance to open a bank account with what you savt, A trial bag will tell the tale. O'Donnell & Co.