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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-09-05
Views From Grecnvillc.

Greenville. Aug. 31.-Crops are not
~ good up here as they are In Sum-
ter. Cotton is young and small. corn
looks the age OF July corn with us.
Fine peaches. but apples are poor.
Fine cows are to be sen In the pas
lures and 1 guess milk and butter are
plentiful. All along the line from
here to Columbia shows that the high
state Of cultivation with us has not
reached this far. as the crops look
scrubby.
Gresnville Is feeling the financial
pressure like other places, and busi-
ness Is not brisk.
The people arc very nice and
friendly. just like all well bred and
educated people are. The women
look no better than those with us.
notice their skirts are wider than I'm
other places and much to their advan-
tage. They are a church going peo-
pie here and the churches are full.
Al the First Baptist church yesterday
the services were very interesting and
Impressive. Prof. Fletcher of Furman
University preached n fine and earnest
sermon. He spoke n good deal about
the European war. the terrible slaugh-
ter and the suffering II will bring on
the world. He said the great business
world was based and run on faith I'm
mankind. Prof. Fletcher blames
Emperor William Cor much Of the
war. lie IL On ernest speaker, but not
as eloquent and impressive as DR.
Waliing OF Asheville Is.
Politics are quiet. This is a Cooper
city and much regret Is expressed
that he did not get I'm the second race
Manning Is spoken OF very kindly. also
Richards. I find people are gettine
very tired Of such politics that we are
having. AS I continue my journey
IL find anything Of interest to write
will tell you when get home.
j. r.. DuPrc.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-09-05
STATEMENT BY RICHARDS.
Says He Feels Confident He Will BE
Elected Governor

Columbia, Sept. 2.-Major John G..
Richards tonight gave out the follow
ing statement:
Il will return to Spartanburg in the
morning to resume the vigorous cam
paign that / am making for the gov
ernorship. I spent the past few days
making speeches to large and enthu-
siastic audiences and am very much
encouraged by the reception accord
ed me. am receiving letters and
kilograms from every section Of South
Carolina, promising vigorous and en-
thusiastic support, and I feel conf
dent that I will be elected governor of
South Carolina by a good majority in
the Democratic primary to be held
September s."
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-09-05
URGES WINTER GARDEN
S"rocry Says SeasOnablc Work May
Reduce Materially Cost of Family
Table.

James l.. Carbery of Rock Hill,
agent for the mill village work, has
written letter to all local demonstra-
tors In mill villages i'm South Caro-
ina, urging upon them to push the
winter garden campaign, as from the
present outlook the high cost Of living
will continue to increase" In order
to overcome this condition partially,
he outlines plans for making r. winter
garden successful.
Where possible" he writes, "se-
lect we'll drained and sheltered To-
cation sloping to the south or east
thorough preparation of q good seed
bed can not be too strongly empha-
sized. Use well rotted stable manure
which permanently builds up the soil.
In the absence of stable manure, use
a high grade fertilizer"
Mr.. Carbery also gives a list Of the
most popular winter vegeta bles that
can be grown successfully in this
State. He names celery, parsnips,
satisfy. collards, cabbage, lettuce,
beets. radishes. spinach, kale, mus
fard. parsley, turnips, onions and car
rots.
ANY information" he writes, "will
be furnished on request. This ap-
plies particularly to the intensive form
Of winter gardening"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-09-05
NEW AUTO CONCERN.
Sumter Motor Company Will Handle
"Car of Mystery

sumter Motor Company Will Handle
"Car of Mystery
An announcement Of interest is the
opening Of new auto sales and sup
ply house in Sumter at 116 S. Main
street to- be known as the Sumter Mo-
tor Company. ] Hugh McCollum will
manage the new company.
The Sumter Motor Company, while
handling auto supplies in general
will specialize in supplying this ter
ritory with the new car to be put on
the market by the Dodge Bros. Com
pany Of Detroit, who for years have
manufactured the vital parts for
thousands of the best make cars, and
now Will produce q car oftheir own
This car has been styled by some as
the car Of mystery" owing to the
fact that even the dealers do not yet
know its exact design or any Of the
specifications. 1t is only known that
1t will be first Of all a car that is fit
ting to represent the branching out Of
the Dodge Bros from mere manu-
featuring Of auto parts to the produc-
Ing OF car that bears their name,
and that 1t will be q real innovation
In cheapness coupled with style and
durability. All over the country, auto
dealers have been scrambling. so to
speak. to secure the agency for these
cars, and the Sumter Motor Com
pany consider themselves fortunate in
having been selected to represent the
Dodge Bros Company here. Their ad
will be found on another page.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-09-05

The Newberry Esraid and News
srints a campaign manifesto from
Cole l.. Risase. attacking Richard 1.
Manning and boosting John G..
Richards. IL begins:
The second race for governor, as
you see. is between Richards and Man
ming. The election Of Manning means
the overthrow of the rights of the la
boring people OF this state. Man.
ning's grandfather was governor. and
his father was governor, and he comes
firectly from the aristocracy."
II this were true 1t would be moth
ing to the discredit to Mr.. Manning.
Il In no disgrace to be descended
from honorable men who served the
State In peace and In war In positions
OF honos and large responsibility; but
In the case Of Mr.. Manning 1t hap
pens that ais father never Was gov
ernor. and Cole l.. Blease Is too smart
and too well posted not to have known
that the statement was lie when he
wrote II. When a defeated, discredit-
ed and disgruntled politician resorts
to 80 puerile an expedient as cir
culating easily proven falsehoods in
the hope OF arousing prejudice and
class feeling IL Is proof positive that
he Is down and out and desperate.
IL may be a high crime and mis-
demeanor In Blease's opinion, to have
had a governor for a father and an
other governor for a grandfather, but
he In hard put to II for campaign
material when ne manufactures an
cestors for Mr.. Manning out Of uncles
and other moro distant relatives. As
Blcase invents ancestors for Mr.. Man
nisg 90 does he manufacture other
charUos that he hopes will create
prejudice against him In the minds
OF honest mon who are easily de-
csived. The safest policy Is to bslieve
nothing that Blease says against Man
ming. Discredit every report circulat-
cd derogatory to Manning. and II In
doubt ask any reputable citizen of
Sumter county for the truth.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-09-05
NEWS FROM EVANSVILLE.
School Opens Oh Sept. 7-GinS Kept
Busy but None of Cotton Being
SOld-POlitics.

Mayesville, Sept. 2.-The Mayes-
Vile school will reopen for the COM
ing session on next Monday, Septem-
Der T. Prof. III. II. Brunson will act
as principal, assisted by Misses Lucy
Pugh and Mamie Bush, Miss Pugh
having taught here last session. 1t is
expected that there will be an unusu-
ally large enrolment and with the
excellent corps of teachers secured.
the session will undoubtedly be a sue
cessful one from every standpoint.
AS everywhere else, the local cot
ton market is demOralized and none
OF the staple has been sold. The
planters are gathering the crop quite
rapidly and all Of the gins are run
ming merrily. Cotton seed is being
sold right along although the price is
low so far. The usual number of buy
ers are on the market The mer-
chants are undoubtedly feeling the
lack Of the cotton money and most of
and winter goods, but business has
increased on Saturdays at least with
the advent of the cotton picking mon
ey.
There Is little political talk here
since the first primary and the sec
ond election will pass off quietly as
usual but good vote will be polled
here again. This is naturally a Man.
ming precinct as he received 61 out
of 81 votes in the first primary, Rich
ards getting 1S.
DR.. w. F. Yates of ChadbOurn, N.
c.. has opened up a dental office here
in the Kineen hotel building, thus
filling a long-felt want Of the town
and community.
Services will be resumed at the
Presbyterian church on next Sunday,
Rev. r. l.. Grier having been absent
on his vacation for a month.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-09-05
FAVORS STONES BILL.
Senate Committee to Recommend
Passage.

washington, Sept. 2.-Senator
stones bill for reorganization of the
diplomatic and, consular service to-
day was ordered favorably reported
by the senate committee on foreign
relations today. Appointments Of en-
bassy secretaries. consuls general and
consuls would be by commission to
general service and not to any par
ticular post. They would be assigned
to posts by order Of the president.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-09-05

Rev. III. G. GrOssman. of Talla-
poosa. Ca. Is expected In the city to-
morrow. Mr.. Grossman is kindly re-
membered as a former pastor of the
Lutheran church, where he will
preach next Sunday.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-09-05
Death.

From The Daily Item, Sept. 3.
The one-year-old son Of DR.. T.. r.
DuRant died at 2 o'clock today in
Norfolk, Va. The body will be brought
home for interment, arriving tomor-
rev night. Funeral notice later.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-09-05
New Coat su,ts For School Girls.

We have just received about 50 OF
the new fall coat suits. especially suit
able for the young ladies preparing
To- go away to school. Come and look
them over. shaw x McCollum Co..
Advt.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-09-05

license to marry has been issued
To Steve Britton. Sumter. and Sallic
Blocker. Mayesviile.
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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-07-02
The Way Of PROGRESS.

A dog barking at a passing automo-
bile Is generally supposed to be as tell
ing a symbol of futile objection to the
march OF progress as could we'll be
imagined. In almost the same category,
however, belongs the strike Of the
stevedores in New Orleans against the
Introduction of the electric truck to
transport freight between vessels and
warehouses. The wonder is that this
Improvement has been SO long delayed
instead OF only now appearing-and
then as a r. Of q new labor diff
Guilty. One cannot have much sym
pathy for opposition in this particular
instance. The motor vehicle In all Of
its forms has come to stay, and the
rest OF the world has been rather rap
idly adjusting itself to the new condi-
mountaineering Record.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-07-02
Boon to Mankind.

Ignatius Tootle, the renowned au-
thority on floral life, who lives near
the quiet village Of Yankee Springs,
is at the present time trying to out
burbank Burbank, the wiz, by grow
Ing a rectangular watermelon. Mr..
Tootle has noticed for years that ulti-
mate consumers have had much trou-
BILE trying to carry watermelons from
the store, inasmuch as they (the wa
termelons) are Of awkward shape and
quite slippery, and after a watermelon
has fallen and has hit the cement side
walk its usefulness may be said to be
over. Mr.. Tootle's watermelon will
be long and will have square corners,
n Of which corners will fit into the
bent elbow when the melon is carried
on the inside of the arm. Mr.. Tootle
expects to have his new melon grow
ing and on the market by 1927, if moth
ing happens.-Boston Globe.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-07-02
REAL LIFE IN THE COUNTRY
Fact Is Shown by Mans Easerness to
Escape From Congestion of
the Crowded City.

Why is it that railway magnates,
presidents of banks and heads of great
enterprises who must perforce do
business in cities, almost all try to
have homes on farms in the country,
where they develop soils, plant crops
and breed animals? It is because there
Is wearisome monotony in piled up
brick and stone. There is confusion
in crowded streets and changing troll
ley car and hot smoky railways.
These things man has made, and they
are needful, but they are not life, much
as the farm boy may imagine them to
be.
Life is in the open country. Life is
in the growing grass, the waving fields
OF wheat, the springing corn. Life is
In the trees and birds, life is in the
developing animals of the farm.
Any man who works with the land,
who feeds a field and watches the re-
suit, gains a real fundamental know
ledge of the underlying foundation on
which rests all our civilization. It
makes him a sober man, q thoughtful
man, a reverent man, and II he expert
ments wisely a hopeful optimist. Life
is where things are born and live and
grow. On the farm is real life.-Breed-
'er's Gazette.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-07-02
The American Farmer.

All things recalled, wouldn't it be
the part of craftsmanship to do con-
occasionally for the American farmer?
He's one-fourth OF your population.
and the nations best hope. The
American merchant borrows at five
per cent. The American stock gam
bier, producing nothing, accomplish
ing nothing, a merest leech living by
the toll of others, borrows for even
less. The American farmer, with all
that can be said to his good and solv-
ent advantage, must and does pay 81!
per cent.
And all the time the savings and
postal banks are bullying with billions.
If the government would make two
blades of grass grow where but one
has grown beforehand publicly it
would pay-the wide-hung chance lies
open. Let it model action on French
or German lines, and place the farmer
on a borrowing par with the merchant,
the manufacturer and the stock job
Der. Let it evolve a system of farm
loans which shall put those savings
and postal bank billions at a per cent
within the farmers borrowing reach.
-Hearst's Magazine.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-07-02

s4tatutss and statutemakers, soldier
q dreadnaught, drayInan ana street
lsWeeper. g q counselor ana clerk.
si..l am the battle .of yesterday and the
mistake of tomorrow.
sassl Am the nnystery..o f the men who
d0 ,. without knowing why.
am the clutch Of. an idea and the
purpose OF resolution.
4 am no more2than what you believe
etc, ~ and 4 4 m that you believe
! what o make me, nothing
81 swing before your eye ID I hr,rht
3aeaIa Of color. symbol :sof yourself.
me 4 pictured sugxestion Of that Sig
llIlnx swnichS MAKES this nation. Nv
stars and d stripes are&your dreaI{e
ND POUR alAbors. 1tley are bright 1vifh
Scneer brtlilAnt with couraxe I. arm With
kalth.sS because yon have made them -
IA .oksy0 art 9 y0usare the max
sxtoty aant the mailing
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-07-02
Makes Jobs for Detectives.

Probably the only people to benefit
by recent suffragette outrages are
private detectives. many Of whom
are doing little else just now but
guarding pictures and other treasures
of well-known hosts and h~ostesses
from attacks at social functions, the
London Globe states.
The head of one private detective
agency told me the other day, says
THE Carpenter In the Express, that
he had been Obliged to engage a spe.
cial staff for this work, and that to
some receptions he has sent as many
as q dozen faultlessly attired guests"
to look after the pictures and chin
of the host.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-07-02
Storing Coal Is An Art.

I. The unreasonable weather OF Decern-
per made the matter OF storing the coal
supply 9 live problem for the anthra-
cite coal operators Of Pennsylvania.
Only 9 iinlted amount Of coal can be
Kept on hand at tidewater shipnine
points. It has been estimator hv .
man engaged In coal shipments that as
much as 10 per cent OF the annual nro-
ductlon OF coal, or nearly 1000, 900 tons.
Is In storage at this time. ii il not
r possible to make the 3
Grafton Of the coal mines dependent
upon the state OF the weather.
To the ordinary observer. fha onor
storage plant. OF the uncovered kind.
Is nothing U q series OF huge piles az
coal. dumped haphazard, awaiting the
day when the demand wifi cali for
shipments. A. q matter OF fact. the
fully made plans.
Breakage ii the dread OF the man
who su-perintendents the storage Of
coal, for every lump that breaks means
OF money. At the typical outdoor
plant q chain conveyor, supported by an
Immense sianting truss, delivers the
coal at the gradually ascending aper
Of BY means Of & moyable
trough bottom the point at which fha
coal Is semptfed ii kept slightly above
the apex. 30 that the fall is gentle =
the breakage Ii minirnized. When the
coal ~ removed Il Is carried to q re-.
loading tower by another conyeyor.
One coal company has storage room.
for 2s000.000 tons. AT one OF its plants
provisionsis made for 100000 tons. aaf
another tor $4,000 tons. Mofe tina
LIS, 900 tons can be stored at q covered
plant IA South Chicago. The schuyl-
XII Haven yard of the P~hiladelphia q
I capacity aof 100000 tons, and that
III 6fafla askanAEifv OF 800a H0A IONS
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-07-02
Searching crItlci.m.

Nve-yearold Herbert, scion Of a.
bookish family. had learned to read
SO early and SO readily that his first
.glimpses Of storyland were growing
hazy in his memory. One day he con
fided to his mother. "Ruthie showed
me her new book today, and it's the
queerest thing you ever saw! Why,
It just says, rs It q dog? It is a dog.
Can the dog rum and a lot Of things
like that! Course I was too polite to
say so, but it didn't seemFto me the
style was q bit juicy!-Lippincott's.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-07-02
Must Have Stirred Audience.

Dan DAILY once essayed the legiti.
mate. 1t was in his early days. All hes
had to do was to come to the center
of the stage at a critical moment and
shout:
The king is dead: long live the
king!"
When the time came Mr.. DAILY
promptly assumed the correct dra
matte pose, but for a moment was SC
agitated that words failed him. The.
he beloved at the top of his voice:
Long live the king-he's dead!"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-07-02

aHffr3,ha fhonEho,,,x M ir@hods ~ cc,r.
imitfee retired ~ eu 81 ! \ ra.,si;. = srhon-
eciioni,r ~ ae0 y see ~ ~
fS,,rSaa = +ha co,,,rStt." -. .arsn,,. -
Sees sds,na ~ Tyna...Ss e.as,ssx 49,
-htIa Ne r.,c,,,s rvneeU - -.
Inc cornrnittsa ~ . n,boIs =. cc,,iH 90.
aura him that ha nersosns1iv va. varv
much ia earnest. The conmittee II.
nart dav ret,,rnsd IA H,,nhss tana.
aered Il IL. ~1re.,gn.tsnn a1tba,..h nro-
tastirr thax y ,s,a,,,I' =. n,nS,.ss, -
dfra re.,,lts - 8
On tha a. - oo+,ha- ,,,1 ,rh,m.a.
was elected ! memHer ~ ~. pannswi.
5vania nssarnh,n anI ~ the sth S;n
made secretarv az the first c~ontinentai
toih In Thomann.a .nsvn 80. 20 y
cordaa hv vui,I;;an aTn, "ofus. ~ r.
..T y,as morr.ad ~ ~,
lamar rrisonYo q Th',un%a, n.
nayt Mnndav Z nana8 u tn,.,n : ~
NV rasnecfs - nv ms,a.s a,,rt ~ : :
street Inc doorLaener ~ con ~ Snss then
first met accosteG me w,th 3 msaa
sreeI1 sn,,o,,aa ssausse.ns my prss-
carnontor.,N haH LIZ "
T waILed 49, ths, e NJ 1920 8
posite to the nresident 7 howad and
told him i awaited his niaa .,ra IL a rna
Piled: Congress desires the favor Of
you. sir. to take their minutes I
seat at the desk. After a short time.
Patrick Henry arose to speak. He Oh.
served that our public circumstances
were like those Of a man In deep EN-
barrassment and trouble, who had
called his friends together to advise
,sesaNona y,n,,1S uone lSl ms Te.
another a different one. whilst perhaps
q third would think Of something bet
ter suited 10 his nnhannv cir.a1m.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-07-02
New Modem Dancinp

The leading Expert and Instructor in New Yor,
EooT-EAsE, the antiseptic powder to be shaken int.
the shoes, Tor the past ten years. It'll a blessing e
all who are compelled to be on their feet, Idnncs
FooT-nAsE keeps my feet cool, takes the frictios
from the shoe, prevents cornsaud Bore, Aching feet
] recommend 1t to all my pupils
(Signed) II. FLETCHER RArI,AMoRu
Sampled FREE. Address Aliens. Olmsted,IeRoy.N.H
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-07-02

SURRENDER. ,

Sir N. W. wraxall.

Sir N. ". wraxall.
WraxaM asked Lord George German
how North took the communication.
"A he would have taken a cannon
ball In his breast, = replied Lord George,
for he opend his arms, exclaiming
wildly AZ he paced up and down the
apartment durizg q few aninutes. o
God. II 10 all overt words which he
repeated many times under emotions
OF the deepest CONSERVATION and dis
tress.
Lord George sent q dispatch to the
king, who was then at Kew. The king
wrote a#celm letter In reply. but il
Swas remarked as evidence of unusual
emotion that he had omitted to mark
which he was always accustomed is 40
with scrupulous precision. Yet the
handwriting showed composure of
mimi.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-07-02

YOUR OWN DRUGGIST Will. TELL YOp
Try Murine Eye Remedy for Red Weak, Water,
just Rye Comfort. Write for Book OF the Nv
by mail Free. Murine Eye Remedy Co.. Chicaro
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-07-02
Reasonable Guess.

Church-They say the new comet
hasn't been seen before ~ Is years,
md it's ~egg-shaped.
Gotham-Where do you suppose It's
sbeenf In cold storage?
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-07-02
Wear wen.

HusbandI note that the papen
again say that Huerta is on his last
legs.
Wife-They certainly do last.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-07-02
Of Course.

Hez-How is Farmer Cawntossel
getting along planting his wheat?
Silas-Oh, just SOW SOW.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-07-02

Misfit kisses ~ the kind girls Law
ish on each other.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-07-02

AMea1thy dame who weighs 700:
bounds - ssportly 4 AnAordinarysvom.
~ VIM Nsakha 2o0tsj0st plain i
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-07-02

= only ask you 20 care Tor ms !
little" s.73I
q. livery day I care for you less
ana le6S X Ssss
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-07-02
5oroxdna old,

Growing Old.
e your father growing old grace,
Efullyl. g
No; he positively refuses TO learnI
the maxixes
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-07-02

y was during this time that the
stamp net went into effect and fealing
its influence upon his trade. he be.
came more than ever a believer In the
freedom of the colonies. He also took
An active interest In preventing John
Hughes. the newly appointed stamp
collector. from entering upon his duties
stn Phtladelphia. Hughes was waited
upon by aGcommittee, Of which Thorn.