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Roads and Bridges.

49, Roads and Bridges.
9oS-J. II. Holland, payt fltg.
gang ia hours. 17aO
Sll-A. w. Newman, 67 Ia
cub. yds ditching. e7s
9l3-Marion Dorm, hauling
and labor 500
sdd1J. @ A. Hodge. hauling
els. c: Tomlnson, haul
ing and labor, 900
sIe-Neil Spann. damage to
crop. 5oO
s2o--Burns Hdw. Co.. collar ~
pads. 30
s2$-DuRant Hdw. Co. oil.
hdw., etc. 475
s36-M. ii. Beck. road drag
work and labor, 2O3O
SET. j. Kirven, 1856 feet
s57-J. "A. Parish, drayage.
pipe, -
lOlS-A. w. Newman, 179 2.3
cub. yards ditching, 1896
l0I4-A. w. Newman, 447 1-2
cub. yards ditching. 1870
lO22-R. +. Atkinson, 5155 IT.
lumber -o17
lO2s-s. ]. Player. s452 feet 'S'i'
lumber. 55es
io21-J, Il. Holland. payt. htg.
gang 80 hrs. pr bits. 31.1O
lO2S-Robt. Witherspoon, hlg.
ana labor. 100
lO29-P. Nj. Pitts, p. p. frt on
pipe. 75
1OS2-A. W. Newman. 116 cub.
yards ditching. 12.s7
lO33-GeO. Muldrow, labor
and hauling. 25O
loS4-Simon Dicks. labor and
hauling. 2O0
1036-A. VI. McElveon lahor
and hauling. 25o
1858 w. a. James. labor and
hauling. o,e
loiO-T. j. DuBose. Gao feet
lumber. 1152
lO41--L. II. Way. labor and
hauling. SOC
1o44-A- NJ. London. 1 days '
labor OO
lO45-J. III. Holland payt. fltg.
gang. 145 hours, 1850
1o47-P. NJ. Pitts. p. p. frt on
pipe. go
1052-A. w. Newman. 113 cub.
yards ditchng. 1865
lO53-J. II. DuRant, hauling.
labor and lumber, 200
io'ai' $422.56
sl2-A. H. Truluck, sal town
ship assessor, 400
lOO1-w. O. Cain. sal town
ship assessor, 100
1OO5-R. j. Brownheld, sal.
township assr., Bd. Eqlztn., SEQ
iols-J. K. McElyeen sal,
township assr.. I'd. EulZtn.. 115O
lott. II. iIoll md, sal. as
oversecr Mtg gang. May, 1000
lOfS-Luthcr Wilson. sal as 2d
guard chaingang. May, 34.G6
1Oi?-D. u. Brunson. sal as
| ovcrseer, chaingang. May. 1900
lOi9-D. II. Brunson, sal. for
| LIST guard. May. 40 90
| lO56--A. j. Hatfield saI as
overScer scrapcr gng. No. /.
| May, Al oo
1o6IER. T.. Wilder. sal rs Co. '''VV
Auditor. May il.44
lO62-B. &. Wallace. sal. as Co.
Treasurer, May. I4.4i
| lO63-F. l.. Player. sal. ats Mag.
LIST District. May, 1O.I1
io6i--tieo. II. DesChamps, sal.
as Mag. I'd District, May, 10.41
lo65-II. l.. Il Wells. sal as
Mag. Sd District May. SOS
lO67-J. +. Ingram, sal as
Mag. ith District. May. 12.5C
lO6S-W. j. Hccs. sal. as Mag
9th District, May, 33.S;
lo69-W. IL. Eppcrson. sal. az
Sheriff. May. 1879:
1o7o-S. f.. Flowers. sal as
Coroner: May. i1.Gi
1071--J. II. IIaynsworth. sal.
as co. sup. schools. May, los.
1O72-P. NJ. Pitts, sal as co.
supervisor May. 1885,
lOI3-J. t. Sumter, sal as
Clerk to go. Comr., May. ao.0'
llp7i-R. l.. Burkctt. sal. as
| Mag. 9Th District. May. 291,
lO75-J. l.. G,lis, sal. as Mag.
9TH District, May. 1O.lr
lO7G-C l.. Player. sal. as
! tOnst. 1St District. May. S.3:
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-06-29

/ hereby announce myself a candi-
date for Clerk OF Court Of Sumter
county. subject to the action of the
Democratic primary
JOHN r. SUMTER.
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For Clerk OF Court.

L hereby announce myself a candi-
date for reelection to the office Of
Clerk of Court FOR Sumter County.
subject to the rules OF the Demo.
cratic party.
l. 7. PARROTT.
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For Sheriff.

OapI T. s. Carson is hereby an
iouhced as candidate for Sheriff at
the ensuing election, having before
u'scharged the duties Of that Office
with promptness and efficiency wa
take pleasure in recommending him
LOT said office, subject to the rules az
the Democratic primary.
MANY VOTERS.
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The name of Fl. l.. SCARBOROUGH is
presented rs a candidate for Clerk of
Court for Sumter County in the com.
ing Democratic primary election.
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For Congress.

/ hereby announce myself as a cam
didato for the nomination for Con-
gress from the seventh Congression-
al District of South Carolina. sub
Ject to the rules Of the Democratic
primary.
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VOTERS.
For Coroner

FOr coroner.
hereaby announce that I am a
candidate for the office Of Coroner of
sumter County, subject to the action
of the Democratic primary.
d. W. OVENS.
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hereby announce myse'f can
oioate Tor the Office Of sherln O,
0uhi'er county, subject to the rules
governing Democratic primaries.
w. H. Scale.
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to know that | can
sell YOU Nitrate of Soda for
prompt shipment from any port
Write or phone me for prices.
Phone No. 533. J. c. Dwyer.
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For Supervisor.

hereby announce myself a oandi-
date for the Office Of Supervisor of
Sumter County subject to the rules Of
the Democratic Primary
l.. E. WHITE.
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hereby announce myself a cam
dldate for reelection to the office Of
supervisor of Sumter County, subject
to the rules Of the Democratic nri-
mary.
p NJ PITTS
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capt. Geo. c. Warren is heret
announced as candidate for the Of
nee or Sheriff Of Sumter county. SUBJ
'ec' 10 the rules Of the Democratic
primary.
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hereoy announce myself a cam
didate for reelection to the Office OF
Solicitor OF the Third Judicial Circuit
subject to the rules Of the Democrats
Primary.
PHILIP II. STOIL
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MANY VOTERS.

hereby offer myself as a candidate
Tor the office Of Sheriff of Sumter
Couhty' subject to the rules Of the
Democratic party.
j. K. BRAD -1rE
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party of motog,ycllsts ccmposed
si sae,sls. L. l.. IL S~..a..a, AZ hie Le-
Grand. f. l.. vogel and Bennie Fol-
som returned Wednesday from
Charlotte and Rock Hill.
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For Solicitor.

L announce myself a candidate sor
the office OF Solicitor for the Third
judicial Circuit. subject to the. rules
OF the Democratic Primary.
THOS. II. TAfUM.
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FIFTH MONTHLY
REPORT

or Supervisor of Sumter County. $. G.
May 1-31, 1912.
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For House OF Representaavea

For House OF Representatives. -
am a candidate for reelection to Z
the House Of Representatives subject
TO the rules Of the Democratic Pri-
mary.
r. B. BELSER.
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Aims House.

SUB. d. Mitchell, dieting
inmates acct. $17O.5O
VIC. j. Lennon, Nj. D.,
med. attention inmates A. H., IT'S
927-D. j. Chandler Clio. Co.,
clothing, so
l039-Moses Sanders, transptg.
pauper, so
Total. s1SO.25
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hereby ann ounce myself a candi-
GATE for the House Of Representatives.
from Sumter County, pledgfng myself
20 ABIDE by the result Of the Demo-
cratic Primary.
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FOR SALE-l6-quart COW f-es, in
mix. Apply to ]. b. Ryan, Wedge
field. :. c.
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announcements Of candidates will
oe printed in this column until the
close of the campaign for s5. No
''ards accepted On credit
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so
Total. s1SO.25
Chaingang.
9O5-Austin Bros. repair
parts road machine, 7.51
919-Sumter Hdw. Co., har-
ness, :j5
922-Sunter Mach. Co., req.
road plOw, 200
s2S-DuRant Hdw. Co.. har-
hess. 1s5
go. ) Whilden. repairs. 1910
SID. j. Chandler Clo. Co..
clothing. road cOnvicts 600
92S-W. T. Hall, repairs. 400
930-W. II. Yates. supplies
scraper division. 6.75
931-Jos. NJ. Chandler, 12 pr.
suspenders. $50
93S-W. Is. Boyle. 2110 lbs.
hay 2S blu. corn, frt., 71.52
93i-GoOd Roads Mach Co.,
Little Winner Rd. Machine, 1860
s39-Booth Hardy l.. $. Co.,
1856 lbs. hay, "a bu. corn,
salt, 62.6G
941-Geo. F.. Epperson, plow
bolts. 2.1S
94S--Ryttenberg & Co., 21O9
lbs hay 80 hu. corn. $685.
946-Beck- HarllAe Co., sup
plies $3.50
947-CrOsswell & Co., SLAB
lbs hay, 80 bu. corn, 1919
94S-Sumter Gro. Co., sup
plies scraper div, 2.7O
9O7-J. A. Parish, frt. and
drayage road machine. 1895
lOOS-D. w. Owens. r. r. fare
and transporting convicts. S.7C
lO12--S. S. Capers. 1856 lbs.
corn, 2072
l015-D. b. Brunson. r. r.
fare. convict. $40
lO16-F. p. Bradford, As 1-2
bus. corn. 52.32
lO24-Sumter Transfer Co..
drayage car load hay. 100
lO25-J. NJ. Capell shoeing
and repairs. $50
IO29-P. NJ. Pitts. rep gum, P.
frt. hay. $50
lo51LA. ]. Hatfield. P. p. frt.
hay. 1886
lO55--D. w. Owens. trnsptg.
prisoner to Penitentiary. $50
059-GreenwOod H'd'k'f &
Mfg. Co.. Convict clothing, $500
Total. s76O.71
Public Buildings.
909--E. Holmes l5 hrs. labor
G. III. grounds. s 1.50
S1S--Forshee & Co., repairs
6 closets. 5.5J
920--Burns Hdw. Co., lawn
mower, $50
93S-West Disftg. Co., cases
toilet paper, 100
951-Sumter Ltg. Co.. lights.
April, $50
957-J. A. Parish. frt and
and drayage paper and dsft.. Isl
OLE. Holmes, SO hrs. labor
~ i dc
05S--E. Holmes, 16 hrs labor
G. III. grounds. 1.GO
Total S4S66
Jail.
917-C. ]. Lennon. NJ. D..
med attention April, 5.73
951-Sumter Ltg. CO.. April. 4.49
952-W. II. Epperson. dieting
prisoners. 15O.60
Total $1GO.S4
Contingent.
I'll. j. Lennon. NJ. d.,
vaccinating, exam. lunacy, 49.lo
921--Jenkins Auto Sup. Co..
repair parts auto, SCI
925-C. w. Smith & Co..
horses and buggies, health
ofhCer, lo.oo
926-H. w. Cooper. repair
work auto. 25.15
929--Sumter Ry. d Mill Sup.
Co, bolts. .53
932-D. \. Allsbrooks, trans
porting prisoner. go
935--GeO. ID. Barnard d Co.,
bonds and blanks, official. 1855
94O-Dsteen Pub. Co., ptg
and pub. report. 56.34
94l-Geo. +. Epperson. cyl.
oil and gaso.. 5.67
942-J. j. Geddings, trans
porting prisoner. rs
94i-Parrott's Book store.
office supplies, $50
945-knight Bros, ptg and
pub, 4476
949-Sumtcr Rubber Co,
tube and casing. $50
$50. y. Van Voorhees,,
typewriter supplies 800
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wight IS Serfby nnani-
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]. Rees, State vs.
Paul Davis. $50
To reed from w.
j. Rees. State va.
Chas. Weathers. 300
TO reed. from W.
j. Rees. STATE vs..
j. w. KerShaw. 1900
To reed irom w.
j. Rees. state W.
Jim Furman. 300
10 reed frUm ".
j. Rees. state vs.
License Small show. 300
To reed. from j. +.
Ingram. State vs.
Mingo Smith. 1000
TO reed. from II.
l.. +. Wells. state
VS.. JAS. Wilson. $500
To reed. from III.
l.. r. Wells. State
VS.. Philip Brunson, 80
TO reed. from II.
l.. +. Wells, State
state vs.. Anna
Wright. % 90
10 reed. from II.
l.. II. Wells. state
". Eivin Choice. 500
10 reed. from II.
i. +. Wells, State
V. Wm. Boykin. 600
10 reed. from II
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VS.. Willie James. 5000
To reed. from Fl.
l.. +. Wells, State
VS.. Adam Wash
ingtOn. $40
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VS.. Sam Richard. $50
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l.. r. Wells, State
VS.. John Bradley, LAO
TO reed. from H.
l.. b. Wells, state
VS.. Joseph Hodge, 1000
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Us. Jack Johnson. 1000
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Maggie Dyson. 1000
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$339.7O
RccipitulatiOn.
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y, 2s,o7S.g4
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t. r. & B., 422,56
By paid warrants
t, Salaries. 1,474.5I
BY paid warrants
t. Aims Hhouse, 1925
BY paid warrants
t. Changing, 76O.71
BY paid warrants
t. Public Buildings. 1896
BY paid warrants
t. Jail. 160.S4
BY paiG warrants
t. Contingent. 429.51
BY paid warrants
t. Pensions, 1880 |
BY paid warrants
ad Imp. Fund.
;. Road Imp. Fund, 259.26
BY Balance Co.
1inary. 22.SO3.4O
By Balance Mill
acial, 1.2O5.15
BY Balance Road
p. Fund. 3,O95.6S |
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=. NJ. PITTS,
II INTER-. Supervisor.
You to know that | can
on Nitrate of Soda for |
shipment from any port.
)r phone me for prices.
No. 533. J. G. Dwyer.
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his fellow countrymen.
The Wedgef1eld Democratic Club.
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y. +. LEVER
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-01

Are you racked with pain?
 Do you suffer so that your daily work is torture instead of being a pleasure?
 Have you lost ambition, zest, enter prise. the desire to better yourself because of pains, aches, dullness? VI
 Has rheumatism set It's clutches on your muscles and palsied your limbs so that life is hardly worth living. your days horror and your nights a terror?
 I can relieve your suffcrtngs and want to do 1t now. Write to me. Fill out the coupon and mali 1t to me. Thut is all you. need to do. will do tue rest and 1t will cess you absolutely nothing.
 Rheumatism, backache, kidney troubles, bladder troubles chronic ca- tarrh. female weakness and the so- called weakness of men are generally due to one cause-uric acid poisoning. My treatment, which is different from all others. will dispel your pains: 1t will make life worth living. Take 1t and you will get up in the morning after sound nights sleep, refreshed and invigorated. Once more your muscles will respond to your will ard do so readily without twinges of agony. without reluctance. Your back ache will vanish and you will bless me and thank me as have done thousands of others.
 This treatment is not an experiment..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-01

yield to more than twice ours, under far less favorable circumstances. We can do the same with greater ease.
 What are the steps? I am referring now only to what the uneducated man can do If man is sick he must have a doctor to diagnose the disease and prescribe the right remedy So with the soil. The evidence of it's sickness Is in- adequate yield It needs analysis. Tho analyst 'can determine what elements have been exhausted by careless culti- Nauon; what particular form of fertiliza. ton will restore that soil to higher pro- ductivity. This will give the farmer tho exact practical information for the first step It is almost the only purely tech. nioal question that he has to face.
 The next step is seed selection, This Is strictly farm work. Every farmer should test his soad for germlnation be- fore planting. Fms he can do quickly in a small wooden hox with few inches of earth in it, covered with a white cloth marked out in sguares. Place 50 or 100 seeds in each square. moisten the earth. keep It in a iroderately even tempera- ture, and count the number of seeds that sprout. An expert can do 10 more
 Soil examination. fertilization. seed se- lection, rotation of crops and thorough and repeated .cutiyation-these are tho essentials. The last mentionel- means deep blowing, frequent narrowing, bring ing and keeping the soil in condition to favor growth.
 There is nothing here requiring tech. nical education. Put the best qualified specialist in the country on 160 acres of land, and he could do no more, and every industrious farmer can do this on his own land and he will get as good results. By nothing more complex than the gen- erai adoption of these methods eight or nine billion dollars might be added yearly to the national wealth, and the farmers of the country be elevated 10 compara- tive affluence.
 Agricultural education for today then, resolves itself into the extreussly prac. teal question of how to get, not students, but the man actually on the farm. to do these few simple things that thransform farming from a laborious occupation of many hazards into safe and profitable industry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-01
Churches and State Education

Oklahoma claims the most complete edu- cational system of any state any says |. is influencing its new neighpors' Ne" Mexico and Arizona, to lay state eduea- tional foundations on it's llnes. bishop Brooke, the missionary in charge sent out twenty years ago by the Episcopal church. reports that he is seeking 10 strengthen religious work at these eouca- tional centers rather than to set up Epls- copal schools, either secondary or colie- giate grades. Baptists, Methodists, fres- byterians and Christians, the last named in lesser degree, have founded tneir res pective denominational colleges.
 Resides the schools. of common grade, Oklahoma proves as the next step above them two university preparatory schoois' six white and one colored normal schools' three branch schools for instruction III agriculture, and at the top a state univer- sity for classical and professional train- ing, and State Agricultural ana Mechah- ical college A single board of education directs aii save the state agricultural col lege. free hand Is given all religious bodies reports Bishop Brooke, ana ne is taking advantage of the privileges py trying to put strong preachers into COT lege towns, and to provide them With equipment for work among young men and women His wcrk IS as Set Neiy weak, but it is growing.
 For two or three years, owing to faiiure in crops, Oklahoma has had hard times The churches have suffered severely Tnis year the state is sharing in the general prosperity from land, and religious ana educational interests are exceptionally ac- tive. In eastern Oklahoma, where are mining interests, a hospital estaphsheu some years since by the Episcopal church, was first to introduce into the state many medical advantages, and it is now peihs developed into further usefulness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-01
INSTRUCTION FOR FARMERS
Agricultural Education Now. Impera.
 tive, Says Railroad President

James J. Hill. in Letter to New York
 Times.
 The importance of instruction for the work of the farm is now universally rec ognized. The number of institutions teaching agriculture in the United States increased from 545 in October 19os to S75 in May, 1910, gain of more than 60 per cent in 19 months. Agricultural col leges receiving federal funds are in oper- alton. today in every state of the union. There are 10 per cent more students in agriculture in these institutions in 1910 than in l9s9. and more than eight times as many students taking the teachers. course in agriculture. Since then the work has grown rapidly. Extension work, short courses, farm institutes. and the running of instruction trains by the rail roads at their own expense are now fam- liar and popular features The movement to educate has acquired much headway
 Our experiment stations, schools and colleges are doing good work, but 1t falls short of our immediate needs. They are mainly engaged in educating teachers Meantime the farm itself languishes Only small percentage of the children of farmers become students in these insti- tutions. Only a small percentage of those go back to the farm. The soil is tiled, the crops are raised, for the most part by men who cannot attend college, high school, or extension course. In generation or two the educational process going on may leaven the whole lump. But the country cannot afford to wait for that.
 The condition of the farm and the sta tstics of production cry out for instruc- ton. and at once, for the whole body of farmers. Soils that once produces from 25 to 40 bushels of wheat to the acre now give from 10 to 25 England and Ger many. once as reckless Of impoverished soil as we, have raised their average
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-01
ChlIrch snmnn,er Conferences

The Chautauqlas and Northfields have now brought their summer educational seasons to an end, and they admit that in point of attendance the year 1912 has been disappointing. Here and there have been exceptional successes, but as whole the season has been twenty to thirty per cent below the average. July dlsappoint- ed many projectors who hoped August would save the season. But August failed to do so: The. reasons given by some In charge of these enterprises, now more numerous than ever, are various, but the chief one is the weather. July proved cool, and 8 start away from the educa- tional resorts was made. August proved wet in. many. parts of the country, and discouraged Attendance at outdoor meet ings. Other reasons are the multiplica- tion of autos, which are charged with talk ing up In purchase and maintenance much of the mo, V heretofore spent at resorts, Christian e..d other Politics played some part, but the managers think not mucn.
 Summer meetings of Christian leaders this year projected, however great deal of new work. Especially Is there an ad- vance In plans outlined in the way of method. In boys work the boy is better | understood. In missions home and for eign are for the first time united. In so- | cial service an advance has been made to social justice--i Saoving the cause, mot mere patching up the wounded. In BibIe study more expert teachers are demanded, | and in some cases are furnished. Plans are more and more such as help all | causes, not simply one. A vigorous cam paign along many lines is projected for the early autumn, which 1t is predicted will open at least a fortnight earlier than than usual, and will not be greatly affect ed by the presidential campaign A few
 summer projects plan larger things for 1913. but most of them will spend next season getting up to their normal. Con- paratively little that is new is as yet | talked of for next season.