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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-07
FIVE CENT BREAD AGAIN.
Assault on Dardancllcs Forts IIas
Brought Price of Wheat and Flour
Down.

Spartanburg, April 3.-The bonn
parchment of the Dardanelles has
taken a cent a loaf off Of bread in
Spartanburg and adjacent towns i'm
North and South Carolina. A.. Cell
fuss, head of a bakery here that sup
plies many towns in this section with
bread, and president OF the Southeast
ern Master Bakers Association. an
nounced tonight that beginning Mon
day bread would drop back to 5 cents.
For two months it has been retailing
here and in other cities for Scents.
Mr.. Geilfuss says the return to
former prices is due to a reduction in
the price of flour which has followed
the activity of the allied fleet i'm the
D~ardanelles.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-07
OCEAN-TO-OCEAN FLIGHTS.
Long Distance Competition Part of
N~incty-Day Programme.

New York, April Ocean to ocean
lights along three routes are planned
by the Aero Club of America as n
part Of its national ninety days aero
plane competition, beginning at July 4
next, the club announced tonight. The
competition announced recently is de-
signed to assist the war and navy
departments in developing aviation
corps for the National Guard and ma
val militia and also to demonstrate
the practicability Of aeroplane mail
carrying.
ITO carry the competition into ev-
cry State, the contest committee of
the Aero Club has outlined three
main transcontinental routes says
tonight's statement. The contest
committee believes there will be
many aviators, who, in flying for the
daily cross-cOuntry prizes Of 500 a
day, will find themselves on the way
across the continent and who will find
it to their advantage to keep on in an
effort to gain the sea to sea prize.
For water flying it is proposed to
establish u distance prize. Starting
and landing places for water aero
planes will be located on the Atlantic.
Pacific and Gulf coasts and the Great
4 H..
will include Portland, Maine, Boston,
Newport, Providence, New Haven,
Norfolk, Charleston and Savannah.
Every naval militia station on all
coasts will be made a landing and
starting station.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-07
TURK MAKES PROTEST..

Takes up killing OF Two Syrians.
Washington, April CLOSE on the
heels Of the American governments
request to Turkey to protect the
Americans ut the mission schools at
Crumiah. Persia, Hussein Bey, charge
of the Turkish embassy here, today
presented to the state department q
protest against the killing in Mexico
OF two Turkish subjects.
Two Syrians we're said to have beer
executed at Torreon by Villa soldiers
the charge against them being thai
they had attempted to circulate
counterfeit currency notes. 1t was
claimed in defense Of the men tina;
the notes had been approved as gen
uine by the Villa commander. Tn,
Turkish charge requested the United
states to protect Turkish subjects il
Mexico and to ask for redress in tho
present case. No reply was made to.
day to the Turkish request, although
IL was understood it would be com.
piled with.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-07
APPEALS TO CANADA.
Prohibition Argument Takes There
Too.

Montreal, April liking Georges
stand on the liquor question in Great
Britain has been warmly approved
here. Several eminent Canadians to-
day declared themselves in favor Of
restricting the use of alcoholic drinks.
Dispatches quoted Premier Clarke
Of New Brunswick as saying his gov
eminent was considering the prohibit
ton of the use Of alcohol in that
province during the war. Premier
Murray of Nova Scotia today assured
a delegation which asked that ad-
vanced steps toward prohibition be
taken that his government had the
matter under consideration.
saskatchewan has abolished the
har during the war.
Manitoba and Ontario have initia-
ted restrictive legislation on the sale
Of liquor.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-07
WHITE CAPS A VISIT.

kingstree, April 3.-Several nights
ago n great commotion occurred
among the egr population of BLU
ford Town" a village near Nesmith. in
this county. on o OF the visit by
q band OF white caps TO the home
of Redmond Biuford. who was taken
from his bed about 2 o'clock in tho
morning and administered a severe
beating. Bluford Is said TO be n bad,
o~verbearing sort OF n negro and was
n terror In the community. The white
caps did not stop at this piece OF law
~lessness. but went TO the home of
Alex Scott, said by community resi-
dents To be an inoffensive negro boy.
who had done no one any harm. took
him out and cut and beat him into in
sensibility, even stabbing him over the
heart with n knife. which. Il is said,
would have been fatal had the blade
not struck a bone. This is the first
time I'm the history OF this section
that such lawless methods have been
adopted.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-07
ZAFATA FORCES HOLD CAPITAL.
Villa-Zapata Agent Declares There is
No Intention OF Evacuatin~.

Washington, April 4.-IshmaeI
PalafoX, in charge of the foreign Of
lice of the Villa-Zapata government in
Mexico City, today telegraphed En-
rique c. Llorente, Washington repre-
sentative that there was no intention
OF evacuating Mexico City as reported
in diplomatic dispatches several DAYS
ago.
The text of the message follows:
You can deny the rurIored evacua
ton of Mexico City, as there is abso-
lutely no ground for it. The capital
IS sufficiently we'll garrisoned. We
have six thousand troops in the city
besides ten thousand in the suburbs.
There is absolutely no danger Of an
attack by the enemy as Obregon is
heading towards Tampico. General
situation good. Commerce, industry
and banks are opened and all admin
~istration working tremendously. The
vi Tic EuIIlOT Ol the "NaCuaClO
caused a little alarm, but as soon as
denied by the government calm was
restored
The Carranza agency gave out the
following statement:
The COnstitutionalist agency has
received advices that Col. Samaniego
returned to Aqua Prieta yesterday
with his command of one thousand
men after q most successful cam
paign against the Maytorenistas in
Northeastern Sonora. He reports
that region is now cleared Of the enc
my and the Maytorenistas as de-
moralize by continuous defeats. They
have concentrated at Cananea. The
arrival of Col. Samaniego's force
brings the. garrison at Aqua Prieta
to three thousand men,"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-07
BIG TIM In ATLANTA PEN.
Hyde Released from Federal Prison
After "Most Worthwhile Sixteen
Months Of Life.

Atlanta, April 2.-Fredcrick A.
Hyde, millionaire clubman and bust
ness leader of Oakland, Cal, has been
released from the federal penitentiary
mere. after serving 16 months in con-
nection with land frauds, and will
leave for his home tomorrow. Prison
officials announced today that Hyde
left the prison late yesterday.
President Wilson recently RENTED
the fines and costs assessed against
Hyde, the total of which never had
been definitely determined and which
had resulted in his staying in prison
four months after his sentence had
expired. Hyde originally was SEN
fenced to two years imprisonment
but this was committed to a year and
a day before he began his term. After
considering the case. President Will
son directed that Hyde be released at
once.
News of Hyde's release did not be-
come public until today. In an
%nouncing his intention to leave tomor-
row for California, Hyde said:
q" had a bully time in prison. It
was the most worthwhile 16 months
of my life.
In 1904 President Roosevelt Or
dered an investigation of alleged and
frauds, which resulted in the indict-
ment of Hyde and several others on
charges of conspiracy to defraud the
government out of thousands of
acres OF land on the Pacific coast.
Hyde was convicted in 1908. The case
attracted attention throughout the
country and three times vas before
the United States supreme court.
Hyde began serving his sentence in
December. 1913.
During his term Hyde gave money
literally to assist in providing sports
and recreation for the prisoners.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-07
MUCH COTTON IN SIGHT.
Total Amount to Date i3,281,3 $3.50 Bales

New Orleans, April 1.-The total
amount of the current cotton crop
brought into sight during the eight
months ending March 81 was 10, 261,-
3ss bales, according to a statement
issued today by II. G. Hester, secre-
tary of the New Orleans cotton ex-
change. During the same period In
1914 there was brought into sight 49,
ss4,636 bales; 13.O2O,9 $50 in 1913 and
14.67s.4 6 in 1912.
The movement since August /
shows receipts at all United States
ports Of 9,1ss,770 bales, against o.
Sl4,256 during the same period ic
1914. Overland movements across the
Mississippi. Ohio and Potomac rivers
to Northern mills and Canada totaled
S65.143 bales, against 1910 s3 last
season. Southern mills takings. ex-
elusive of consumption at Southern
ports. were 2.3sG,0O0 bales, against
2,5s4.o30 bales in 1914, while Interior
stocks In excess of those held at the
close of the commercial year were
s10.476 bales. against 466,147 last
year.
Including stocks left W. at ports
and interior points from the last crop
and that part of the current crop
brought into sight during the last
eight months. the supply was 1860.
CAT bales. This was a decrease of
ST. .o06 bales under 1914 and an in
crease of 256.99t bales over 1918.
Foreign exports for the eight
months of the season were 6.5O4,224
bales. a decrease OF 1903, 7SS bales
under last years and 754.GS2 bales
under 1913.
The total movement for the month
ending March 81 was 1,361.147 bales
against $4,000 last year and 1,114,-
161 the year before. Stocks at the
seaboard and the 20 leading Southern
interior points at the close of the
month were 2,423.735 bales, against
1.351.s3G last year and 1,2S5,SO9 the
year before.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-07
ADVICE ON "SWATTING."
State Board OF Health Getting Ready
for Campaign.

The state board of health has sent
out q graphic poster i'm advance Of
cleanup day" on April 10. The adj
vice on the poster is confined to means
of Kidding the house and yard of flies,
two of the formulas for which are rs
follows:
Fly poison for the house: Two
t~easpOonfuls Of formaldehye in a pinl
Of milk and water, equal parts, and
sweetened with sugar
Il clear the O quickly Of ncs
burn pyrethrum powder. Sprinkle
the powder on live Goals carried on Il
metal shovel. The fumes cause flies
10 fall i'm a stunned condition. They
must he swept up and destroyed. Best
results are obtained by d~arkening tho
room. allowing only q ray of light t.
enter at window-shades. Flies, in at
tempting to escape the fumes, viii
SEX the light at the window, thus
simplifying their collection
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-07
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION.

Manning. April 3.-The annual
meeting of the Clarendon county Sun
day school convention closed Wedncs-
day night after one of the most sue
cessful meetings in the history Of tho
organization. The meeting. which
was held in the Baptist church, open
ed Tuesday night and continued
through yesterday morning, afternoon
and last night. Though the weather
was very unreasonable. the attendance
was very gratifying. Twenty-niEc
schools were represented by about
three-scOre delegates and several
times that number of visitors. The
discussions of the several topics on
the programme as we'll as the special
addresses were all of a high order and
instructive. The special features Of
the convention were the addresses de-
livcred by J. ID. Cappelmann Of Char
lesion. Il. j. Alderman OF Alcolu. the
Rev. Thomas j. Watts Of Columbia
and the Rev. j. T.. Green of Green
wood. At the closing session last
night the following officers were elect
ed for the next year: X. j. Aldermen.
president; $. Oliver O'Bryan. vice
president; Mrs. X. f.. tIarlee, sccrc.
tary. IL was q pleasure to the people
Of Manning To entertain the delegate
! and visitors.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-07
DISEASE WIPED OUT.
Foot and Mouth ScOurgc Driven on.

Foot and Mouth ScOurgc Driven on.
Washington, April Virtual Grad
ication Of the live stock foot and
mouth scourge in the United States
was announced tonight by the de-
partment Of agriculture. 1t was said
that except for n herd of animals near
Syracuse, n. Y, Geographic reports
from throughout the country showed
the disease wiped out.
Figures compiled by the depart
ment show that 124,161 diseased ami
mails have been slaughtered from the
time of the outbreak in October to
March 25, last. Interference with the
operations Of stool yards. the quar-
antining Of infested regions and other
precautionary measures, 1t was said
had caused Understandable losses.
Concerning the probability OF flu
ture trouble from the disease, a state
ment by the department said:
Although all the infected animals
have been killed and buried, it is by
no means certain that all possible
means of conveying the infection have
been destroyed. 1t is considered in
e~vitable, therefore, that more ami
mails will be stricken, but these
should be only sporadic cases, which,
ii promptly reported, can be taken
care OF in time to prevent further Sc
rious spreading of the disease
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-07
ARRIVE IN CHARLESTON.
Capt. Murphy and His Crew Reach
Safety.

Charleston, April Capt. Emerson
Murphy and the six members of his
crew were landed here today b. the
Clyde steamship LeEape which res
cucd them from the schooner Alice
Murphy yesterday afternoon Is miles
south of Diamond shoal light ship.
The schooner had sprung a leak and
had been shattered by the heavy seas.
1t was bound from Savannah for Prov
idence, Il. l., lumber laden. The crow
were dashed to the mizzen mast and
had been without food for SO hours
when rescued by Second Officer J. w
Hood and a boat crew from the Len
ape. Because Of the heavy seas oil
was freely used by the rescue crew.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-07
ELECT SECRETARIES LATER.


.@s' <ast<o ~
Columbia. April determination
was perfected ut the first meeting of
tho State board OF charities and cor
rections, created by an act OF the last
legislature. which was held yester-
day Mt the State house.
All members Of the board were
present: George B. Cromer OF New
berry. ID. ID. Wallace Of Spartanburg,
the Rev. z. T. Cody of Greenville. r.
IL King OF Charleston and L. e. Car
rigan OF Society Hill.
DR. Cromer was elected chairman
and Mr.. King temporary secretary.
A secretary and an assistant sec
rotary will be elected at a future
melting of the board. A committee.
consisting OF DIR. Cromer. Mr.. Wal
lace and DIR. Cody. was appointed to
report the nominees for the positions
TO DO filed by the board. The next
meeting OF the board. A committee
Columbia May 26. TIE opinion of the
board was that a trained expert
should be selected for secretary. A
large number OF applications have
been received for the two positions.
The board appointed DIR. Cromer
and Mr.. King Us a committee to visit
and inspect the state Hospital for the
Insane and the State penitentiary be-
fore July 1. Mr.. Wallace and Mr..
csrrsgan were named on a committee
to inspect the South Carolina Indus
trial school Mt Florence and the Lex
inSton reformatory in Richland
county.
Members or the board discussed the
work TO DO undertaken.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-07
Corn Grinding Quit.

HarVin, April 4.-John Boynal
Erogdon. Harvin's energetic and pro-
pressive merchant and farmer, has re-
Gently installed n modern meal and
prits mill and will install in CnoneC-
corr crop. Il modern corn huskcr,
cleaning and sacking outfit. with au-
tomato WCichCrS. \ large area has
le'n planted To wheat and the pros
poet il good for a fair yield.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-07
Miss Elizabeth Brcarlcy Dead.

Bi~shopville, April AT her home
near B~ishOpville Miss Elizabeth Brear-
ley, only daughter Of William Brear-
ley, died on March 2S.
The funeral services We're conducted
by the pastor, the Rev. Ii. c. Ham
mond, assisted by the Rev. Mr.. Grier,
the interment following in Mount Zion
cemetery.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-07
CALLS FOR INDEMNITY.
United States Requests Germany TO
Pay for Loss of Frye.

Washington, April Indemnity
for the full value of the American ship
William p. Frye. destroyed at sea by
the German converted cruiser Prinz
Eitel Friedrich, has been formally re-
quested from Germany by the United
States government.
Acting Secretary Lansing an
nounced today that a note on the sub
ject had beer sent 60 Ambassador
Gerard for presentation to the for
eign Office at Berlin. Pending it's re-
ceipt in Berlin the document will not
be made public.
No representations were made con-
corning the cargo, since it was estab-
lished after an inv estigation by the
state department that it was sold en-
route and was British owned at the
time Of the sinking.
The American government contends
in the note that the commander of
the Eitel was not warranted in de-
stroying the Frye, because it could
not lawfully have been condemned as
q prize had it been taken into a
prize court. The destination OF the
cargo vas a private firm in England.
the American government learned,
and the wheat could not therefore
have been considered as Contraband.
The general belief in official quar-
ters here has been that the case would
be settled without difficulty as soon
as a full report of the affair mailed by
the German embassy here reached
Berlin, which is expected to be this
week.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-07
SUMTER COTTON MARKET.

Corrected Daily by Ernest Held
Cotton buyer.
Good Middling Q ~
strict Mlddlins 0.
Mlddling s rs.
Strict Low Middling 3 80.
Low Mlddling 7 rs.
staple cotton. nominal.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-07
Marriage License Record.

Licenses 90 marry have been grant
George Holmes and Mary Holiday.
Rcmhert; James Punches and Rehoc-
and Ruth Butler, Sumter.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-07

Columbia. April Capt. James NJ.
Graham, Nineteenth infantry. u. =. A.
recently detailed for service with the
South Carolina National Guard as In
structor-lnspector. has has arrived in
Columbia. lie will make his head
quarters here and will work under the
direction Of the adjutant generals OF
ice.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-07
Letter to
Or. K1lmer & Co.,
Binghamton, ". ".
Prove What Swamp-Root Will DO For

Prove What Swamp-Root Will DO For
You.
Send ten cents to Dr.. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton, II. Y, for a sample size
bottle. 1t will convince anyone. You
will also receive a booklet Of valuable
information, telling about the kid
ueys and bladder. When writing, be
sure and mention this paper.
Regular ffty-cent and %one-dollar size
AdVt
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-07

Pinewood. April 3.-The board OF
health has received d~lsinfectants To
be- distributed among the citizens, and
cleanup week. pril 5 to 10. will be
complied with by all citizens.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-07

Columbia. April 3.--The Secretary
OF state hGs issued n commission TO
the Brown Mercantile Company. of
Ice County. h p, .doners being c..
II. Yates, and +. A. Bradley.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-07

Chicago. April inlay wheat Sl.5j.
Corn 10. oats, So; pork, ribs, noml-
nal; lard 1907.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-11-18
THOMSON, GA, NOVEMBER IS, 1915.
The Boards are Trying 10 De-
fcnd the Big Missionary
Salaries and Allowances.
r j. W. Graham, D. D., is one of the editor
-. of The Christian Index

= j. W. Graham, d. d., is one of the editors
-. of The Christian Index.
One of his associates is M. L. Britain, tool
of the Roman Catholic School-book Trust,
and violator of the Law in giving money out
of the public treasury to the Catholic schools
in Augusta and Savannah.
These Index editors are squirming under
the hot rays of exposure. They have been
deceiving the people, and squandering the
funds raised to "convert the heathen."
Those funds were raised in the home
churches, whose congregations are made up
of people who find it mighty hard to support
their families, educate their children, and pay
their own pastors.
The people have been amazed to find that
their contributions to Foreign Missions have
been mois0ppro p110ted Those sacred funds
have been pocketed by dozens of Board Sec
retaries, used to pay for ''literature," used to
pay for elegant missionary mansions used for
Ocean-trips around the world, used to pay
houseful of domestic servants, used to pay
double-up salary to the married missionary,
used to reward him for begetting his own
children, used to finance him during his yearly
three months vacati09e; and used to teach all
sorts of gainful handicrafts to Cinnamon,
Japanese Hindoos, and Koreans
It is enough to fatigue indignation to think
about the way our peoples hard-earned money
has been taken from them on false pretenses.
Did our Baptist Board, or the Index editors
ever let it leak out, that they were hiring
dentists, surgeons, doctors, trained nurses, and
experts to teach carpentering, blacksmithing,
weaving, sewing, and typesetting?
Did anybody, begging you for mission
money, ever tell you it would be spent in
establishing a Farm-experiment Station?
Or chronological institute? Or free hos
pital! Or free neutrality-suspicious. for the chill
dren of foreign races?
No: they never did tell YOU They left you
in the dark, and they kept you satiffed by
printing letters from these lazy, pampered,
selfish missionaries, in which they led you to
believe that they had all heathendom by the
tail and were swinging it into line for Christ.