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The Watchman and Sowthron Catered at the Postoffice at Sum ter, S. C, as Second Class Matter. PERSONAL. Mr. E. F. "Kahle, who has been connected with the Farmers" To . baeco Warehouse,- left for his home in Abingdon, .Va. While here Mr. Kahle made many friends who re gret his departure. - Miss .Sarah Martin, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. W. B. Up shur, left for Selma, N. ?., where she will spend some time before returning-to her home in Winston Sale, N. C. Rev. J. B. Walker has returned from Philadelphia, and will hold regular services in the Church of . the Holy Comforter Sunday. ? Mrs. Samuel B. Mitchell and son, ' Samuel, have returned from a very pleasant visit to* relatives in Ridge jj way. "Little Miss Miriam Bradham, is 2 visiting relatives in Mullins and > Wilmington. Mr. F. L. Curry, of Clio, passed through the city en route to the ^ Presbyterian College of S. C. Mr. James Purdy. went to Char leston Friday morning. Mrs. W. M. Folscm and daughter have returned home, after- having spent several weeks at Kanooga 3L%ke, "Hendersonville X. C Mrs. Harold E. Platt, of Aiken. is visiting her parents. Mr. and Mxas, H. G. Osteen on Hampton Ave. - After spending the summer at home- Messrs. Dpnnie, Kirven and James Raffield have returned to Clinton to continue their studies ? ia the Presbyterian College of S. C. Mr. Samuel Sanders, cadet in the Naval Academy, was in the city this morning, leaving for Bre vard, X. C, to visit relatives, Mr. J. A. Raffield left for Green vine-this morning for a few days; to visit relatives. ? Miss Isabel Williams, who will j teach Latin and French in the; ..Girls' High School arrived in the! city Friday morning. Mrs. W. M. Crawford has gone j to Cades, N. C, to visit relatives. Mr/Hal pjuvali, Jr., of Cheraw, is visiting Mr. Hubert Osteen for a few days. Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Thayer have returned home, after a visit to Asheville. } Mr. Marion Ard has returned home after several weeks to the mountains of North Carolina. ? Mr. E., J. Collier, who has been with Sibert's Drug Store, for the past two years, , left Saturday morning: for Elloree, taking charge cf a drug business there. Mr. and Mrsi J. A. Fisher and little daughter, of Newport, Tenn., arrived Friday to visit Mr. and Mrs. *?sear "White. They motored through and experienced no trou 2*te" sad found the roads in good condition except between Cam den and Sumter where the roads are] being worked on. ' A. XX Thompson, of Raleigh, j N. C, arrived in the city this morn- j ing to visit his wife at the home j of her parents, Mr. and Mrs, G. E.! Lupo; on Washington street. Miss Billy Pringle of Charles ten, is Visiting in the city. Mr. Jesse James of Summerton; was in the city yesterday. * Mr. J. H. Hope left the city this! morning for Bennettsville. ! Mr, J. A. McKnight - returned from Columbia Saturday morning, i Mr. E. B. Warren, of Charles-! ton, passed through the city Sat-1 urday morning, for the Presbyteiv j Ian College of. South Carolina, Mr. J. L. Smith passed through ! the city en route to his home in j Winnsboro. Miss Dorothy Cain, who has been ' visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Ii P. Mellett, has returned' to her home] in Laurens. " j Mrs. W. R. Webb andr httle] daughter, have returned to their I home in Charleston, after a visit j ; to her uncle Mr. J. F. Glenn. Dr. and Mrs. J. P. Marion havel returned home after a pleasant j vacation. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Mitchell and] grandson, Willard Nave, are visit ing relatives in the eity. Miss Maude Welch, of Chester field, is visiting Miss Lillis McCol- j lum. ? . . Mr. Joe Austin of Columbia is i visiting friends in the city. ?Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Gallagher have returned from a trip to New York. Judge R. O. Purdy returned to the eity Saturday morning, > Miss Elizabeth Smith, who has been visiting Mrs. A. Weinberg went to Elliotts Saturday morning. ' -Miss Katherine Arant, after a pleasant visit to Miss Sarah and Liz Brcgdon has returned to her home in Manning. Mr. David Doar has returned to the city after spending his vaca tion with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Tisdale left this morning for Chester, where they will spend some time visiting friends and relatives. Missea Maud and Aline Bradham are visiting relatives in Mullins and Wilmington, N. C. Mrs. B. J. Hogan and Mrs. Ray W. Crouser of Greeleyville, visited Mr. W. B. Beetham Satur day. Miss Crouser and Miss lun ette Lindler have returned to Greeleyville. Mrs. J. P. Ryan is visiting her sister, Mrs. Wells in Columbia. Miss Henirich went to Barns ville,- Pa., Monday to spend her vacation. Mr. and Mrs. D. H. James of Washington, D. C, are visiting Mr.- and Mrs. Earl Brooks on Church- street. Mr. and Mrs. Jos. J. Baker of Columbia are spending a few days in the city with relatives and friends. Mr. LeR?y Doar, of Georgetown, spent Saturday in the city on his way to Clemson, as the gue3t of Dr. and Mrs, C. P. Osteen. Mrs.- Laurie Lawson and Miss McCollough of Darlington spent Saturday in the city as the guests of Dr. and Mrs. C. P. Osteen. Miss Ruth Harrington of Che jraw returned to the city Monday [morning to resume her duties as j teacher in the girls' high school, i Mr. Carlisle Stuckey returned ! from Hendersonville Monday ! morning where he has been spend jing' some time. b Miss Sarah Lucius of Ellliott's I left for her home Monday morn [ing after spending some time with Miss Mildred DeLorme. 1 Mr. Dudley Hodge of Britton spent the day in the city Monday. b Mr. Charlton -Walsh returned to the city- Sundaf morning after working for the Royal Insurance Co., of Atlanta, during the summer months. 1 Mrs. M. C. Balfour of Quincy, iMass,, is visiting her sister, Mrs. R. W. Beaty on Liberty St. ' Mr. and Mrs. John' Wilson are stopping with Mrs. Gentry, 15 E. Bartlette street; until their home, which was damaged by fire last week, is repaired. Mr. Paul Reynolds, Jr., returned this morning from .Atlanta, Ga., "Where he spent a few days. Francis . Holman has returned from French Broad Camp, Bre vard, N. C, and leaves this week with his mother for Spartanburg, where he will enter Wofford Fit ting School.: ? ^Misses Dorothy Bray, of Charles ton, and Miss Clair Burch, of Florence, are the guests of Miss Nell Ard. Mrs. A. A. Sanders of White Hall, -S. C, is'visiting her sister, Mrs. A. J. Moses on Broad street. r?-Mr. and Mrs: H. P. Scott are in Orangeburg to attend the Stro man-Hunter wedding on Wednes day evening. Messrs. Henry ,and DeSaussure ^Edmunds, Marion; Foxworth, :Har old Whildeh, Vivian Weldon, Henry McLa?rin, Robert Edmunds and John Shaw ' left Monday morning for the Presbyterian College at Chnton. Mr. Charres Haynsworth has re- i turned to Clemson to resume his studies. . . Mr. and Mrs.. Shepard Nash have gone to P?wley's Island to spend some time. ! Mr. I. D. Elmore left this morn I ing for White Lake, N. C, where |he will be for several days, at tending a banquet and convention ? of" the Philadelphia Life Insurance* Co. The Erring-Wage. I In every discussion of the labor ? problem of- late we hear much I mention of the "living wage." That ; is interpreted to mean, not the [Wage- that is sufficient to main [ tain the1' worker himself in com jfort. but the wage that without hardship will support the .family of four or five persons that is- sup-. poSed to be dependent on him. It is m uch to -- be desired that - every worker in the- country* should have not only a living wage but a wage \ sufficient for' ample living- Every j industry would be on safer fbunda j tions if that - were possible; - most >employers realize it,- though some !of them unfortunately do not. ; In considering" the living wage I some things have to be remember led. A living wage in New York or I Chicago is not tb,e same thmg?as a I living wage in a-village of Florida lor -Vermont, and attempts to j "standardize" wages are 'conse jquently-unfair. A considerable ! proportion of the wage: earners are I not '? heads of families, and not a ! few fasnilies number two or three |or four wage earners among them. I Finally, there is the obstinate fact, i which some humanitarians forget, [that a living wage in order to be J paid must be earned. There is -no inexhaustible reser- j j voir of- money fron> which wages jean be paid. Wages do not come I from capital but from profits. C^p ;ital. is-locked up in'the instruments i of production;' It is not enough [for.labor, leaders to insist on a liv [ing wage and- expect ^employers* to I produce- it from spine J vast ? -and I idle stock of money that does not ; exist.- The only way that the em j ployers can pay better wages to the ;.-men'who work for. them is by do ing more busines?, selling i more igoods and getting more money for j them. It is unfortunate and it seems I paradoxical that-with all our. ad i vantages of mechanical production. ; we do not produce and never have ! produced enough goods to afford a j !"living wage'' of at least $1,800 a! I year to* every worker. Nor can \ jsuch a wage be had merely for the I I demanding. The' labor unions j jmust change their attitude toward! i production and recognize that ; higher wages depend on more pro- '< j duction and cannot be had for less. ? Employers must bend every effort ro diminish the overhead cost of ! production and at the same time i admit the obligation to pay to la | hor a part of what they make by J better manufacturing methods, j Employers who do act in that man | ner pay living wages to their men 'and live an easier and happier life j in consequence. j What is needed in short is a j frank and friendly understanding, i the willingness of one party to stop i shaving wages for greater profits jand the willingness of the other j side to abandon the "ca' canny" 'and half-work methods that keep the wage fund so far below what jit might be. And that is another i way of saying that man needs only to practice justice and wisdom in : order to be happy.?Youth's Com I panion. - j Summer tourists -returning from ithe mountains by automobile re ! port that the up country is in the I grasp of a severe drought, and that j crops apparently have been seri jously damaged within the past few j weeks. During the time that the j lower and middle section of the ! State were flooded by daily rains !the up country received only mod erate showers and the crops were {not damaged at all by an excess ! of moisture* [Miss JI|cCoIIum Entertains |Miss Maude Welch Guest of Honor ?; Miss Lillis McCollum delight i fully, entertained last evening in honor of her charming visitor, Miss Maude Welch, q? Chesterfield. Ten conversational dates were enjoyed by all during the evening. De flicious refreshments of ice cream and cake and mints were served in the eouse of the dates. At a de jlightfully late hour the guests j drifted away in the contentment of j an evening's entertainment and j joyness. j Those present were: Miss Irene 'Dick and Mr. Julius Pitts, Miss j Isabel Jennings and Mr. Alexander jTisdale, Miss. Marie Nash and Mr. 'Howard DeLorme, Miss Eugenia Miller and Mr. Hugh Bradley, Miss Borita Moise and Mr. Julius Stubbs, Miss Doris McCallum and Mr. John Shaw and Messrs. Joe Aus tin, Bert DeLorme, Bob Edmunds, Hal ? Clarke, Lawrence Kirv en, Henry Edmunds. .... The Scale of Living. ? In all the arrangements of life j there is a certain appropriateness that is well to observe out of re spect for ourselves as well as out of- consideration ? for others. The extremes of inadvertence in this [regard' are obvious and ridiculous to everyone. Only the foolish buy ifur coats on a salary of fifteen dol i lars a week, oi order a talking ma ! chine or a new car on the install ment plan when they are not able ; to pay their doctor's bills. If lyour children have to earn their j living, as you have earned yours, it is absurd, for you and cruel to them to bring them up as if they were to inherit a fortune. They and you will suffer for it in the lend, and the worst part of your suffering will be that they will blame you. The way to achieve a wise and reasonable ? proportion between means and ends, to see that what you and your family have in one line conforms to what you have in another, that there is no startling contrast between your expenditure of one year and 'that of the next, is "to use forethought and system. The most damaging, the m?st de structive of all forms of human fi nancing is to spend because you 'have. Your pay comes in, your mining stock yields an unexpected, dividend: you go out in a whirl wind of glee, step round the cor ner, see a wonderful bargain, some thing yeu always knew you need ed but never thought of buying, and the whirlwind has swept away jthat pocketful of cash, and there ! is still a little more to pay, and you ! have no idea where it is coming Ifrom- Your glee has vanished'with ! a pop. like a burst balloon. Plan for your payt what you will do with it, what you ought to do with it. Plan to put unexpected dividends into the bank, and let the wonderful bargains go. You won't live in quite such whirlwinds of either kind, but your life wiil he sane and well regulated, and ; there will be a pleasing complete ness about it such as is unknown to' those who spend by fits and starts. At the same time ? there is a slavery to -the scale of living that is as much to be avoided as the neglect of it. Independence is the secret of happiness, perhaps more in maters of money than in any thing else. Do not Jet anyone on earth dictate how you shall spend. Have the things you really enjoy: go without those you don't, no matter who criticizes. The scale of living is set by the artificial re quirements oftsociety. It is well to recognize it, but not to be martyr to it. The measure of happiness, is the adjustment of real wants to actual means: and any scale that does not allow for that is false and disastrous.?Youth's Companion. ?? ? ? Primary Foiling Places. The polling- places of the four Democratic ward clubs of the^ city of Sumter at the second primary Tuesday, September 12th, will be the same as the first primary. Owing to the fact that the city paving bond election will be held on the same date and as some of the managers of the first primary have been appointed to serve as managers for the bond election it (has been necessary to make a few ?changes in managers for the pri mary. The managers for the four ward clubs are as follows: ?Ward 1?J. W. Davis, W. D. Owens. W. R. WelLs, J. T. Shirar, clerk. ?? Ward 2?A. W. Moseley, E. L. i Ducom, Manning Brown, L. E. Purdy, clerk. Ward 3?J. A. Caihoun, C. B. Preacher, Geo. B. Phillips, J. M. N. Wilder, clerk. ? Ward 4?J. T. James, T. E. Hin son, Jr., Sam M. Pringle, F. E. Nigels. clerk. Polling places same as in first primary. The first time Thos. G. McLeod offered for a public office he was nominated for the House of Rep resentatives in Sumter county by (the largest majority any candidate had ever received, and few if any 'candidates have since duplicated I his record in his first race. The 'vote Sumter county gave him last I Tuesday was complimentary?a [substantial majority over all other ! candidates?but on September 12th 'the friends of good government jand law enforcement should rally ir.o give the biggest vote any candi date for Governor ever received I in Sumter county. It can be done I if the proper effort is made. Marriage Licenses White: John L. Mclnnes of Charleston and Louie Smoot of Sumter. Chicago. Sept. 1?Attorney-Gen eral Daugherty today in 'the Uni ted States court filed a suit in equity against all striking railway : shopmen's unions. London, Sept. -1?A vigorous' at itaek on Four Courts building, in Dublin, the scene of Rory O'Con nor's recent spectacular stand against the Free State troops, start ed this morning, according to a I dispatch to the press association, j It was assumed here that Repub jUcans are attacking the troops j guarding the ruins of the build ing.- -: j Washington. Sept; 1?The sold iers' bonus bill was sent to con jference today by the house under.'a special rule. Chicago. Sept.- 1?Babe Ruth has been suspended for three days j for language to umpire Connelly j Wednesday which was offensive: Dublin, Sept. 1?Reports that Ar thur Griffith was poisoned here at the time1 Of his death three weeks ago, have again become prevalent. Leading physicians have informed the correspondent that there is talk ? of- exhuming the body and holding an autopsy. Atlanta, Sept. 1=?Arrangements have been made at the county jail for the hanging of Frank Du Pre, convicted slayer of Detective Walk er, at two o'clock this afternoon. \ Washington, Sept. 1?The lead ers' of' the striking shopmen will not abate their attempts to make the? strike effective, despite the court action, WV H. Johnson, head of the machinists union said here today. Washington, Sept. 1?The status of peace negotiations between the anthracite operators and miners is understood to have been discussed today at the White House confer ence between President -Harding, 1 Secretary Hoover and Senator Reed of Pennsylvania. Reed is said; to' feel that the situation is so delicate that publicity as to the negotiations : ia inadvisable. ; Chicago, Sept. 1?The United ! States government was today grant ' ed a temporary restraining order against the six striking railroad, j shop crafts unions, their officials ? and members from interfering''in any way'with the operations of rail ? roads or their properties' on ap"pli j cation of Attorney-General Bough lerty. ' The order is in force until I September 11th, pending a hearing i on the government's application foxt a permanent writ. '' r"- ?? j Chicago, Sept, t-^-Spokesmen for ? over a hundred railroads subm.it ; ted testimony to the railroad labor <board today in the hearing on the demand of the maintenance of way ;men for a" minimum wage of 48 I cents an hour. The hoard is expect j ecLto hand down a decision in the ( next two weeks. i Paris, August 31?The American I government has reopened the in jquiry as to propriety of . keeping (troops on the Rhine. The present j attitude of the' French government I is said to be one of indifference, j while Germany has expressed a! desire that American garrisons con tinue, being likely, the Germans [believe, to exercise a ealmlng in fluence over the Belgian, French land British forces of Occupation. Paris.S ept. 1?The French cab , inet today simply "took cogni-1 zance" of the decision of the re parations commission on the Ger man moratorium question, neither approving or disapproving it. It specifically' reserved, however, "en tire liberty of action" in case later! Jdevolpments made other action nec-! jessary. t Lorraine, Ohio, Sept. 1?Johnny! ? Kilbane, featherweight champion. j today 'accepted the terms of "Tex j Rickard for a twelve' round bat tle with Johnny Dundee, who was awarded the featherweight title by the New York State Boxing com mission. The battle will be fought, j September 29 at Boyle's Thirty ! ] Acres at Jersey City. Washington, Sept. 1?The British cotton interests are profoundly pes- I simistic of the future, while the French consider their prospects as bright, according to a report to the i commerce department today from j Edward Pickard, chief of the tex ! file division, who. is making a sur j vey of conditions abroad." Athens, Sept. 2?The general army headquarters vhas ordered the concentration of the Southern Greek army on the Uhchak line in Asia Minor to make a definite stand against the advance of the Turkish Nationalists. This maneu ver is expected to relieve the situ ation considerably. Pittsburgh, Sept. 2?From an au I thoritative source came a report jthat rail strikers had approached jthe Baltimore and Ohio officials j here and at Connellsville, and New j Castle to discus a separate settle | ment of their difficulties. Road ? executives refused to make any i comment. i 1 Columbia, Sept. 2?A leading j topic of conversation here today is !a right which took place last night j between Burrell D. Manning, son I of former Governor Manning, son ! Eugene S. Blease, of Newberry, j brother of forme Governor Blease. jThe fight took place at the Jeffer j son hotel. Mr. Manning was with j some other friends of Thoe. G. Mc l Leod, candidate for governor, hav I ing a conference regarding the can didacy of Mr. McLeod, and Mr. Blsar^e called at the room and asked for admittance. When he was refused, he gave an answer it is said that Mr. Manning- did not like and words resulted in blows. iThe two men were separated afteY a number of blows had been passed. Paris, Sept. 2?A proposal for a conference of all interested na | tions to settle the war debts ques tion is embodied in the French re ply to the recent circular note to [ entente powers sent by Earl Bal four. Such a meeting the French note holds, would have a most sal utary effect upon the reparations problem, as until the question of inter-allied debts is settled there (can be no solution of the former. Chicago, Sept. 1?Police and fed eral operatives here are under orders today to start a vigorous drive against the radicals, agita tors who are believed to be be hind the railroad wreck and bomb plots. These activities followed twenty-four hours of increasing disorders, bridge burnings, and dy namiting of railroad property throughout the country. Disclosure of an alleged plot to kill three rail rdoad presidents or kidnap mem | bers of their families were made j during the investigation, accord } ing to the Chicago Herald-Ex aminer. Washington, Sept. 1?This year's cotton crop was forecast today at 20,575,000 bales by the department, of agriculture, basing the estimate on the condition of the crop Au j gust 25, which was 5 7 per cent of normal. By states, including Vir ginia,- the condition is 68 per cent of normal, forecast 23;000 bales, N. Carolina, 65 per cent and 750, 000, South Carolina, 46 per cent and 687,000, Georgia, 44 per cent [and 968,000, Alabama, 60 per cent and 626,000 bales. Tokio, Sept. 2?A severe earth quake wrecked Taiboku in northern Formosa early today according to advices received here. Consider able damage is reported and loss of life is feared. Washington, Sept. 2?The Pom erene bill regulating campaign ex penses of candidates for election to the senate and house has been passed by the senate. The measure takes the place of the law held un constitutional in the Newberry case. It now goes to the house. ' Marion, III., Sept. 2?The grand jury investigating the Herrin mas sacre is also making a thorough inquiry into .the .responsibility for the apparent failure to call troops in time to prevent the slayings. A number of prominent/citizens have been questioned, it'was learned to-' day. Memphis, Sept. 2?Charles La nier, a non-union railroad shop worker, was shot and killed today when an automobile in which he was riding to work, was fired upon. Another man in the car with La nier was not injured. London, Sept. 2?A Riga dis patch to the Times says according [to* official Bolshevist figures the S Cheka executed one million, seven I hundred and sixty-six thousand, one hundred and eighteen persons before being renamed by the Su preme Political Administration last February. Mobseheart, 111., Sept. 4.? American labor made great strides during the past ,year Sec retary of Labor Davis declared to day in his labor day address. In spite of unemployment, he said, it had fought off all attempts to de j crease the wage levels set during I the war and had safely passed the ! war crisis. The working men j have "grown accustomed to com | forts in life not .tasted before." j They now find them preserved for the future. Asheville, Aug. 4.?Freight and passenger trains are moving out of Asheville on schedule time today, j following the re-arrangement of j guards at the Southern depot yes j terday in a manner satisfactory to the railway switchmen and fire men, who walked out Saturday nighty because of the appearance of guards. St. Petersburg, Fla., Aug. 4.? Lieut. Walter Hinton and his South American bound fliers hopped off for Key West on the second leg of their trip in the Sampiao Correia II at 8:35 this morning. _ _ _ _ SEVOLUTION . IS STARTED jPart of Russia Said to Be Purged of Bolshevism London, Aug. 31.?A dispatch to jthe Daily Mail from Berlin says a ! report has been received in the j German capital that the Odessa ' Soviet has purged itself of Bol 1 ehevism, proclaimed its independ t ence of Moscow and called upon I all citizens to unite against the i "Communist usurpers." The report alleges that the whole j of South Russia has joined with j Odessa and that the revolution has i been attended by bloody encoun : ters. i Gorman mororless plane flew ; three hours. Wish we could get a i motorless auto to do that. m 9 ?-~ i Taxpayers remind us of game ! fish. They put up an excellent j fight, but they start it after swal I lowing the hook, Man is Convicted In Gameten tfnder rometry Law Camden. Aug. -31.?An interest j ing trial of statewide importance i took place in Magistrate S. X. (xickolson's court yesterday when iH. B. Wilson was tried andconvict | ed for - practicing Optometry with l out a license. j Dr.?T. A. W. Elmgreen, of Co lumbia;' secretary and treasurer of the South Carolina' Board of Ex aminers of Optometrists, appear ed for the state; testifying', that there, was nor; one registered to practice optometry in South Caro i lina of the defendant's name and it was charged that the defendant \ had tested eyes for ' glasses in a crude and uncertain manner, also that he had sold glasses to local people: r I The optometry* law states "that, any person shall be deemed to be practicing optometry. who shall dis play a sign, or in any way adver tise as an optician or optometrist or who shall employ any Tnean-s, other than the use of drugs for the measurement of) the powers of vi sion, or the adaptation of lenses* for the aid thereof, or who shall in- the sale of spectacles or eye glasses or lenses,- use' in the test ing of the eyes therefor, lenses other than lenses actually_ sold.' The law regulating this practice, was enacted in 1917 and there have been very few violations, this case being the first one brought to a trial in over a year. It was through the efforts of C. L. Black well and J. M. Hofner> op tometrists here, that the state board was enabled to bring the-convic tion under the exmaination law. ' ? ? ? * , '?? \ Columbia, Sept. 4.?The state (supreme court Js now giving con sideration to' a motion, which if granted, will reverse the entire court policy of the state which al lows circuit Judges to grant new trials on the grounds of after dis covered evidence. An opinion of the court will be handed down at an early date bearing on this im portant legal policy. The motion was made by As sistant Attorney General Daniel last Friday, for a reversal of the Lee case, of T9OS, which, accord ing to * Mr. Daniel's argument be fqre the court,' would allow a de fendant to make a motion before as many circuit judges as he cared to, for a new trial on the ground of after-discovered evidence,' and then to appeal from the: circuit judge's rulings. Prior to the de cision in the" Lee case in 1908 only ?the supreme court cotild grant a J new trial on the ground or after discovered evidence : after the su preme court decided the case and sent down its- remittitur. In- connection with this motion the court also has under consider ation appeals in two cases from Greenville, the Cliff Hawkins and the William Thompson case. In both cases new trials had been granted by Circuit Judge j; T. Mauldin. Thompson on the ground that he had not had a fair trial; Hawkins on the ground of after discovered evidence. - - Hawkins was originally -sentenced to die on 'October 1. 1920. Appeals have stayed the execution for nearly two years. The supreme court af firmed, the verdict of the lower , court, and recently Judge Mauldin granted a new- triaL - From this the state appealed. Thompson;, a negro was also sentenced to die in the electric chair. The supreme court has granted a; new trial to Elliott Culbreath, a Saluda hegro. now' in the death house at the penitentary, sen tenced to die for the murder of W. W. Edwards, a magistrate's constable. The court says, in re viewing the case, that Culbreath was at his home. A warrant had DOINGS OF THE DUFFS TOM, THERESIA MttLfcj CATCH HIM * QUICK I \SIVLL 'H?y? H&THS ? THINK Y?O'jX fOi somebody- rix ?ETV?? VET OP name ISN'T to ; bot*ii sworn for bis arrest, but no; ! one had been deputized to. make I the arrest. A band of men gath ered at the negro's house, and j some one called out lhat the sheriff [j ; was there with a warrant, which; [negro came out of the house, en j countered the constable, in. his ef i fort to flee, and shot the officer, : The court holds that the .negro was i j most likely fleeing from the band j of men, out of fear, rather, than J from arrest, and the sentence ofj death w*^ not justified. It is currently reported, that an effort will be made to defeat the street paving bond issue at the election on the. 12th instant. If this movement succeeds it will mean one thing that most citizens will not approve?the unpayed sec tions- of Main and Liberty strtjets that lie between the city paying ? and the paving on the county roads will remain unpaved indefinitely. If we want to have two pieces of the worst roads in-the county with in the city limits where every traveler can see them when going from Sumter to Mayeeville or from Sumter to Bishopville. on Federali aided state highways, then we have) Notice is hereby given that the only to vote against the bond is-1 Second Democratic Primary elec xoncE Second Demoeratic Primary, Taes m September; 1?, vi sue, If we want the city paving ?f?nected. with the.county paving then 'we must vote for the bond is sue next Tuesday^ September 12th. ?-? * ? - ? Shark seen at -a- bathing beach imay have been a hotel man swim j ming. America's. champ- mail sorter is a girf. You haven't seen her pic ture because she doesn't work in a"jiday, September llthr bafhing suit. Snipe: -A game bird highly prized by sportsmen. Also a game highly prized by Irishmen. - V ?- ? ' Like cures like. Yes, but dislike doesn't cure dislike. pion wilKbe held at the usual po|l ing places of the respectfa'e'Deu?* cratic clubs of Sumter county en Tuesday, September 12, 192-2.. The polls : will open at S o'clock a." v? and close at 4 o'clock, p. m. -v Tjj& same managers will-serve as at First Primary election. One of managers will call on the 1 signed for boxes, tieketsand :< election supplies on or J?efcxe The Esecfct tive Committee WIM; meet f day,- September 14th. H. G. Osteeh, County Chain, - *?? ?. Beauty secret: Keeping your out of other's business- pre ifrxun: becoming flat.