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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-11
MAYESVILLE SOCIAL LIFE.
Book Club Entertained by Mrs. Mills
Other Social Affairs.

Mayesville, Sept. Little Misses
Eleanor and May Belle Crawford en-
tertained quite a large number of
their little friends at a birthday party
last week. The young hostesses re-
received large number Of beautiful
presents. A number of games were
played and delicious ice cream and
cake were served during the afternoon.
The Tuesday Afternoon Book Club
met last week with Mrs. j. H. Mills,
and there was q large number of both
members and guests in attendance. As
usual, the afternoon was spent most
pleasantly in playing rook. The guests s
prize was won by Mrs. j. w. Spencer
and the members by Mrs. j. ID. Black
we'll. both receiving dainty sets of
rook cards. Refreshments of cream
and cake were passed during the en-
tertainment.
Little Miss jamie Louise Mayes gave
an afternoon party to a number of her
little playmatcs during the past week.
The little ones enjoyed the afternoon
engaging in outdoor games and re-
freshments were passed to add to the
afternoons pleasure.
Miss Dorothy Mayes Of Savannah IS
visiting her cousin, Mrs. j. H. Mills.
II. c. Bland and family have re-
turned from month in the noun
tains of Western North Carolina.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-11
BALTIMORE BANKER DIES.
Michael Jenkins, Multi-milliOnaire
and Noted PhilanthrOpist.

Baltimore, Sept. 7.-MIichael Jen-
kins, multi-millionaire banker and
philanthrOpist, died at his home here
today of pneumonia. He was ~
years old.
Mr.. Jenkins was one of the chief
owners Of the Atlantic Coast Line
railroad and was chairman of the
board of directors of the Merchants
band Miners Transportation company.
He was trustee and treasurer of the
Catholic University of America at
Washington and was knighted by
Pope Plus X for his services to the
Roman Catholic church. Mrs. Jen-
kins died several years ago. They
left no children.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-11
ANOTHER GENET CASE.
DUMBAS COURSE APPEARS IN
MORE SERIOUS LIGHT.
President Visits State Department. TO
Discuss Now Puzzle of International
Relations.

Washington. Sept. S.-Dr. Constan-
tin Dumba, the Austro Hungarian
ambassador. returned late today to
the summer embassy at Lenox. Mass,
to await word from Secretary Ian
sing as to whether the United States
is satisfied with his explanation of his
intercepted letter to Vienna outlining
plans for withdrawing Austro- Hunga-
rian labor and bandicapping American
plants manufacturing war supplies.
The ambassadors statement TO Mr..
Lansing yesterday that he was acting
under instructions from his govern
ment apparently has made the affair
moro serious than a mere question of
ethics or properiety involving only DIR.
Dumba himself. Silence on the sub
ject was observed again today at the
White House and state department.
The president. carrying the cabled
copy OF the ambassadors letter, walk
ed over to the department during the
morning. surprised Secretary Lansing
I'm his Office and spent is minutes dis
cussing the situation. 1t was the first
time a president had done such q
thing since Spanish war days.
Before leaving Washington. Ambas-
sador Dumba called at the department
OF labor to seek cooperation in his
programme for providing new en-
ployment for workmen expected TO
walk out OF the munitions plants
Secretary Wilson was not In his Office
but he talked with Acting Secretary
Densmore. 1t is no secret i'm official
circles that the administration would
not countenance any sort of partici.
patton In such a movement.
IL Is understood the ambassador
proposed to go ahead with plans with.
out regard to the attitude OF the
American government.
At the embassy today II was EN-.
phasized that the only step so fai
ordered In the instructions from
Vienna was the issuance OF a procla.
nation calling on all Austro- Hunga.
rian Gubjects to obey the decree o,
their government against aiding IL
the manufacture of war munitions fol
the enemy.
"A decree similar to this one was is
sued some time ago by Germany
though 1t attracted but little com
ment. II Is stated that soon aftei
tho decree was proclaimed most o.
the Germans employed " munitions
plants. chiefly I'm executive or scien
tihc departments. quietly sought other
positions without waiting for urgin.
through diplomatic agencies.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-11
DISPENSARY Is PREPARED.
Charleston Is Getting Ready for 4,
Long Dry Siege.

The Charleston dispensary board
has ordered $250,O0O worth of liquor
ana beer to be delivered at once, and
arrangements are being made to rent
a warehouse in which the goods will
be stored. The object is preparedness
FOR any eventuality when the State
votes on the prohibition question on
september ii, the board believing that
IL big demand would follow a victory
of the prohibition forces, and should
prohibition he established. the board
could buy no more supplies,
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-11
TEST OF sINGLE-sTALK COTTON
Experiments mt san Antonio Result I'm
Higher Yields Than Under the OLD
system.

Washington. Sept 7.--strlklng evil
dence In favor OF singie-stalk cotton
culture under certain conditions is
furnished by the results OF test of
the comparative merits of the custom
ary wide spacing and the new single
stalk system which was conducted in
1915 at San Antonio by the United
States Department of Agriculture and
report OF which has just been pub
lished BY the department as Bulletin
No. 279.
From go to $50 per cent more bolls
In the same row space was secured
under the single-stalk system and In
addition the important advantage of
Increased earliness was secured.
Where the boil wevil is present. this
consideration can not he overlooked.
Single-stalk cotton culture has been
recommended under certain conditions
by the Department OF Agriculture in
number of recent publications.
among them Farmers Bulletin COL
and Document 1850. Very briefly. the
system consists In late thinning and
the leaving OF short spaces between
the plants I'm the rof. The combination
OF these two measures results i'm sup-
pressing the vegetative branches and 4
promoting earliness. Large, luxur-
liant plants are later In setting and
maturing the crop than plants of more
restricted growth. Where the season
Is short. therefore. and where the
boil weevil Is a menace. this is a strong
argument In favor OF single-stalk cul-
ture.
NJ San Antonio. under ordinary cir
cumstances. n cotton crop must be SO,
In about one month. In 1914 tho
season whom the experiments under
discussion were made. the crop was
set In about 25 days. The slngle-stalk
and wido-spaced systems OF cotton
culture we're compared In alternate
single rows. In alternate blocks OF four
rows each. and again In alternate rows
at various distances apart.
AT the end OF 40 days. II was found
that single-stalk rows alternating
with wide-spaced rows produced 81
per cent more flowers and alternating
blocks OF single-stalk rows produced
rs per cent more. There were fewer
bolls per plant I'm the singlc-stalk
rows than In the widc-spaced ones. but
this difference was much more than
offset by the greater number of plants
in the former A. has already bcen
said. In the same space the single
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-11
RESIGNS PLACE, AVOIDS PUNISH
MENT.
X. l.. Black Gives up Position as
GrccnvilIc Coroner, Thereby Escap-
ing PuniShmPnt

~. ~. DIach NlNcS up IOSltlOn as
GrccnvilIc Coroner, Thereby Escap-
ing Punishment.
Greenville, Sept. Ar. L. Black
today resigned his position as coro-
ner Of Graenville county in order to
avoid serving six months and paying
a fine of $500. Judge Prince, in sem
fencing him for malfeasance in office.
placed a prOviso in the sentence to
the effect that no punishment would
be meted out in case Black resigned
Immediately. The coroner thereupon
filed his resignation, which has been
forwarded to Gov. Manning. Already
there are several applicants for the
vacant job. Black was tried Friday
and found guilty. 1t was proved that
he was drunk on many occasions. An
interesting feature in connection with
the case is that Black made his cam
paign on the ground that he wished
to get money with which to educate
himself at Furman. His appeal was
of the nature which gained for him
the support Of many a churchman in
Greenville.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-11
MEETING OF STENOGRAPHERS.
State Convention to BE Held I'm COlum-
bia Thanksgiving Day-COmmittee
Meets

Columbia, Sept. 5.-A call has been
issued for meeting of the South Car
olina Association of Stenographers, to
be held in Columbia THANKSGIVING
day. Executive committeeman met in
Columbia Saturday, when plans rel
ative to the annual gathering were
made. Final arrangements were left
to the Columbia representatives. Sew
eral prominent South Carolinians are
to be invited to deliver addresses.
Miss Kate III. Armistead is chairman
of the Columbia group.
The executive committee is COM
posed of j. j. Brennan of Sumter. also
president of the association; Ernest
L. Allen, Miss Kate H. Armistead.
Miss Florence V. Mcmillan. Mrs
Joseph B. Morris, Mrs. w. T. Rison
Miss Edith Porcher, Miss Marguerite
Bradford, l.. L. Wood and Mia,
Wood, Edgar Brown I'd several otber
writer's throughout the State.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-11
VIEWS ON COTTON SITUATION,
GOV. MANNING FAVORS STATE
WAREHOUSE SYSTEM BUT
WILL ASK LEGISLATURE
TO MAKE CHANGES.
Governor Speaks at Conference of
Charities and Corrections and
Common Good.

Columbia Sept. THE joint ses-
sion of the conferences on Charities
and Corrections and the Common
Good opened auspiciousy tonight.
Gov. Manning delivered an import
ant address on the cotton marketing
problem, in which he outlined cen
tain changes he expected to ask the
general assembly to make in the
State cotton warehouse system with q
view to strengthening the State cotton
warehouse receipts as collateral in
the money markets of the country.
Albert S. Johnstone secretary of
the State board Of charities and cor
rections, spoke to the conference
about the work in penal and chari-
table institutions undertaken by the
board. stressing the fact that it was
the desire Ofethe organization and its
agents to work in cooperation with
officials in charge of institutions un-
der it's supervision to accomplish any
needed reforms. Mr.. Johnstone said
that facts already gathered by the
agents Of the board indicated the need
of survey Of the State to determine
ithe extent of the menace of the feeble
minded. study of the repeating pris-
oner and a study of pauper relief
work. He told briefly of several con-
ditions found in institutions by agents
of the board whose Investigations are
only getting under way fairly.
| II am in favor Of a State system
Oh warehousing cotton" said Gov.
Manning in his address. However, I
Intend to recommend to the next
general assembly certain changes in
Iour present State system which I be-
lieve will safeguard our warehouse re-
ceipts. The changes in the system
which / intend to recommend are:
] First That managers OF the ware
house in the State system be disinter-
ested parties. neither owners Of the
warehouses nor of cotton stored in
them.
Second. That cotton in warehouses
In the State system be graded by an
official grader.
| Third. That the State warehouse
commission have inspectors and
weighers to visit the warehouses in
the State system and check up the
number of bales in them, the weight
OF the bales and the grades of the cot
ton to see If these are as represented
In the State warehouse receipts.
If the receipts for cotton ware
housed under the State system repre-
sents the value given on it's face, be-
lieve that it will be eagerly sought
and readily accepted as security for
loans. declared Gov. Manning.
Gov. Manning said that If he were
in position to make rules to govern
cotton planters in marketing this sea-
sons crop he would provide that no
cotton was to be sold below the cost
OF production, that the whole crop
was to be sold slowly; that none of 1t
was to be sold until the price reached
the cost of production or just over it
and that the marketing Of cotton by
individuals take place only as their
debts made it necessary.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-11
HIGHLAND BUYS SUPPLIES.
No Purchase Can be Made After Sep.
tembcr 15-Ordcrs Aggrcgating
About 100000.

ADOuC $oOO,OOO.
Columbia. Sept. 7.-Anticipating the
success Of the prohibition election
September IA, the Richland county
dispensary board has placed an order
for approximately 100000 worth of
| liquors, beer and wines. This is con-
sidered a six months supply. The
board usually makes purchases for
three months.
In the event that prohibition car
fries, the dispensaries will not be per-
mitted to place orders for whiskey
I after September Is. The law will 20
into effect January 1.
The heavy purchases therefore
mean that the dispensaries in this
county will remain open until the last
day. Several days ago it was reported
that the Charleston dispensary board
had made purchases amounting to
$25O,OOO. No reports have been re-
ceived from the other 13 dispensarv
counties, but it is presumed that extra
amounts have been bought in a ma
jority.
Last year the Richland dispensaries
sold about $4,000 worth Of whis-
key. The sales are now averaging
about $4,000 a month. A member
or the board said yesterday that the
"a loo for NOvap,bor ,ra no-,
probably average about $4,000.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-11
badly injured.

Stalk rows set from so To $50 Der cent
more bolls than the widc-spaced
plants. In every case single-staH
rows yielded more than the adjoining
wide-spaced ones. An examination of
the hber In the field showed that
there was no perceptible difference in
the quality of lint produced under the
two methods.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-11
ALLIES START OFFENSIVE,
INDICATIONS FORESHADOW STIR
RING EVENTS IN WHICH ALL
WILL COOPERATE.
Russians Hold Ground Before Dvinslx
and Vilna-Great Battle Raging OH
Edge of Pripct Marshcs-Hcavy
Bombardmcnt Goes OH In West.

London, Sept. THE news that
Emperor Nicholas had placed him
self at the head of his armies which
he announced in a telegram to Raj
mond Poincare. president of France,
and the visit paid by the French
commander-in-chief, Gen. Joffre, to
the Italian army. foreshadow, it is
believed in military circles here, stir
ring events in which the armies Of
all the allies will cooperate.
1t is declared the Russians already
are nearly. If not quite. holding their
own against the Austrians and Ger
mans whose advance at most points
has been stopped. In places the Rus
slams are on the offensive.
Riga remains the danger point, but
the fact that the Russians continue to
Occupy the town after the Germans
have advanced to Dvina, southeast
of Riga, leads military writer's to
conclude that the Russians feel rea-
sonably sure of their ability to defend
the liver and in time to push suiTl-
ciently far westward to relieve the
pressure on their forces on the
shores of the Gulf of Riga.
Westward of Dvinsk and Wilma the
Russian offensive has held the
ground for more than a week, and
the military observers think those two
towns seem fairly safe unless the
invaders can bring up strong REIN
forcements. East and southeast of
Grodno the Russians have taken up
new positions across the River
Stchara and It's tributaries and are
protecting network of railways which
run eastward and northwad to the
interior.
To the southeast again. among the
forests and swamps on the north
eastern edge of the Pripet marshes
great battle is in progress between
the army of Prince Leopold OF
Bavaria and the troops Of the Russian
centre. Amid the marshes the Ger.
marf Field Marshal tNlackensen, Ii
working hard for a decisive result
His reports state that he has taken
two Russian positions.
\ Still another battle is being fought
Tor the triangle of Notifications far.
ther south OF which. Rovno ant
Dubno remain In the hands of the
Russians.
| The Austrians and Russians face
each other across the sereth rive,
In Galicia, where the fighting is con.
tinuous. The stand which the Rus.
slams are making suggests that their
supply of munitions is ample.
A Petrograd correspondent say,
the ammunition shortage of the Rus.
slams has been corrected and thai
while the production is slow, it /.
incessant and growing in activity and
method.
| For the 18th successive day the al.
lies have bombarded German posi-.
tions in the West, only varying their
artillery activity by occasional all
raids. sapping and mining operations
and bomb throwing. Success rests
nrst with one side and then the
other.
Similar activity Is noticed on the
part OF the Austro-German army
along the northern frontier of Servia
where the Teutons are strengtheninp
their positions on the Rivers Save
and Danube. presumably preparatory
\ In IN npv nffanoiy~
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-11
American AerOplanc Wrecked.

Washington. Sept. 7.-An army
aeroplane carrying Lieut.. Morrow ana
Private khuenkryk. fell two hundred
teet while accommodating over Browns
Nilie' Texas, this morning, and was
smashed to pieces. Both aviators were
badly injured.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-11
COTTON GINNERS' REPORT.
'ccial to The Daily Item.

Special to The Daily Item.
washington, Sept. 8.-Thc govern.
ment report today shows 461,357 bales
cotton ginned from the 1915 cron IN
september first, against dSO,317 last
year.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-11
Chief of Police Killed.

Athens, Sept. IA disnatcb ,,.,
Petrograd says the chief of police has
been assassinats& RU -
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-03-25
THINGS TO FORGET.

(Anon)
If you see a tall fellow ahead Of a
crowd,
A leader of men marching fearless and
proud,
And you know of tale whose mere
telling aloud
Would cause his proud head to in
anguish be bowed,
It's a pretty good plan to forget it.
IF you know of a skeleton hidden
away
In a closet and guarded and kept from
the day
In the dark; and whose showing,
whose sudden display
Would cause grief and sorrow, and
lifelong dismay,
It's a pretty good plan to forget 1t.
If you know of thing that will darken
the JOY
OF a man, or a woman, girl or a
boy.
That will wipe out smile or the least
way annoy
A fellow, or cause any gladness to
cloy,
It's a pretty good thing to forget it.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-03-25

LacIede Mining Co.-Levied February
Is, mills, payable March 20 to James
A. Wayne secretary, Wallace Delinq-
uent sale, April 6.
Nabob Mining Co.-Leyied February
10, mills, payable March 49, to Har-
vey M. Ross, secretary, Kellogg. De-
lnquent SALE April IL.
Oreano Mining Co.-Levied February
Is, II mills payable March rs to F.
p. Candee, secretary Wall
ace Delinquent sale April 26.
Pandora Copper Mining Co.-Levied
March 8, mills, payable April 10 to
]. c. Weatherhead secretary Wal
lace. Delinquent sale, May I.
saItese Consolidated Mining Co..
levied February l, mills, payable
March l to o. " Manring, secretary,
Symons block, Spokane Delinquent
sale, April l.
Silver Cliff Mining Co.-Levied on
February 90 2R mills payable April
to Jas. d. Young, treasurer, Larson,
IDAHO. Delinquent sale April "a at the
esidence of Ed C. Young, Wallace.
Sonora Mining Co.-Levied February
5, mills, payable March Is to w. A.
Smith, secretary treasurer, White &
Bender block, Wallace. Delinquent
ale April 10.
Sunset Development Co.-Levied on
February 20, mills, payable March q
t. VIM. Schierding, treasurer, Wallace.
delinquent sale, April II.
Samson Mining Co.-Levied March
4, mills payable April to X. l..
Branard, secretary, Wardner. Delin-
quent SALE May 8.
Tarbox Mining Co.-Levied Decem-
Der 20, 2R mills, payable January 2s
0 Richard Daxon, treasurer. Wallace.
Delinquent sale February 2S. Post
pOned to March II, Postponed 20
March %.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-03-25
LEAD AT ST. MARES.
Important Discovery Reported Near
Benewah County Seat.
(St Maries Gazette)


It is rumored around town that
rich strike has been made on the hill
side facing the city, on the north bank
of the ST. Joe just opposite the ranch
home of Ed Wunderlich. According
to report the find is one Of the richest
in galena ever discovered in this local
ity. The discovery was made by Luke
Love, who was out prospecting and
ran on to the ledge near the crest OF
the hill. The surface indications look
ed so good that Mr.. Love, after dig
ging several test pits and exposing
the ledge at different points down the
hill side, and finding it increasing in
size and richness of ore, determined
to open a tunnel at low level and is
now hard at work on the prospect. He
figures that he will strike the ledge at
a distance of about rs feet and expose
a quality of ore that will rival some Of
the richest in the Occur d'Alenes
Here's hoping his expectations will be
realized.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-03-25
NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT.

Office If the Sunset Development
Company. Wallace, Idaho, March l.
1878.
Notice IL hereby given that at
meeting Of the executive committee Of
the board Of directors Of Sunset De-
Nelopment Company, held on the 25th
day Of February, 1878, an assessment
Of five 80 mills per share was levied
upon the outstanding capital stock Of
the corporation. payable on or before
March q, 1915. to VIM. Scherding.
treasurer at Wallace, Idaho.
Any stock upon which this assess-
ment remains unpaid on the 27th day
of March, 1915, will be delinquent and
advertised for sale at public auction,
and unless payment IS made before,
will be sold on the nth day of April,
1915, to pay the delinquent assessment
thereon, together with the costs Of adj
Vertising and expenses of sale,
WIN. SCHIERDING,
Treasurer Wallace. Idaho.
M4-25- At
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-03-25
MUCH NEEDED REST.
Congress in Session an Average Of 10
Months Per Year.
New York Herald)

New York Herald)
With tomorrow's dawn the country
will begin the first long rest from
congressional activities in seven years.
SO accustomed have business interests
become to the dynamiting of public
confidence that it is much to be doubt
ed whether many persons are able to
recall the benefits of the good old
times" when there was short session
of congress beginning the first Mon
day in December in even numbered
years and ending the following March
4, and then a long vacation.
Mr.. Taft began "the continuous per-
Torrance" with his extra session to
revise the tariff, March Is, 1909, and
followed 1t, with his extra session to
consider Canadian reciprocity, April A.,
1911. Then Mr.. Wilson came along
with his tariff extra session, April T..
1918, and congress sat steadily for 567
days. Thus congress has been in ses-
sion during the last II years about 10
months each year on an average
Now the spring and summer are to
pass without an extra session of con-
gress. For this relief much thanks"