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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-12-16
FINDS RECEIPT; BRINGS MONEY.

Washington, Dec. 11.-An interest
ing story of ~ante-bellum days was de-
veloped here today as the result of a
visit to Washington a few days ago
of Gov. John Gary Evans OF Spartan
burg.
Before the Southern States seeded.
Mr.. Evans father was a captain in
the United States army, according to
the way Representative Byrnes re-
lated the story today. When the
South withdrew from the Union,
South Carolina among them, Col.
Evans father was loyal to his section
and resigned his commission as cap.
tain in the Federal army.
Two or three years ago-almost SO
years after the war hal ended-con-
gress passed a law providing pay for
officers who were in the regular Unit
ed States army when the war began
and who resigned. Claim was made
in the interest o. Capt. Evans of
Edgefield, but his representatives were
informed by the government officials
that his claim was barred because
when he turned over the property
under his control to the United States
authorities upon resigning his COM
mission, all the equipment in his care
was not there, this lack Of equipment
amounting to about $1,1O0. For this
reason the claim was not paid.
Last Sunday Mr.. Evans was look
ing over some Of his fathers old pa
pers and came across a receipt from
the proper authorities showing that
Capt. Evar.s had many years ago paid
the amount charged against him IN
full ana that this discharged the
claim standing against him. Col.
Evans Immediately came to Washing
ton and showed the receipt to GOV
eminent officials and several members
of the South Carolina delegation i'm
congress. Mr.. Byrnes among them.
As a result Of finding this receipt the
legal representatives of Capt. Evans
will probably be paid by the govern
ment in accordance with the recent
law, the exact moun Of this pay
ment is not ascertained here yet.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-12-16
MAGIC IN WONDERFUL Ni>!HH-
ACID FOUND IN MISS.
Astonishing Cures Being Effected hy
Mineral Product When All Other
Medicines Fail.

There must surely be magic IN
your Sulferro-Sol" writes Mrs. s,:one
Of 3104 Fourth Avenue, Colmtus,
Ga.
Il had given up ever seeing a we'll
day again and had not been able to
do a thing for two years. 1 was COM
pletely covered with pellagra erup-
tons and my flesh felt as though con-
stantly exposed to a flame. My ply
steal condition was pitiful. 1 had
tried SO many doctors and remedies
that I was utterly discouraged.
u when l was almost wild with
suffering and felt as though 1 could
not endure it any longer l heard of
S~ulferro-Sol and it's astonishing pow
er over. pellagra. 1 got a bottle at
first week. Now 1 am absolutely
we'll and able to work again, and it is
impossible for me to tell my gratitude
for this great medicine.
I only wish I could re3th every
one and tell them Of Sulferro-Sol.
There would be so much less suffer-
ing II people would use this honest,
dependable remedy.
S~ulferro-SOl is sold and recommend
ed by every Druggist In Sumter and
vicinity. Murray Drug Co, State Dis
tributors.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-12-16

checked girl. No one can imagine the
confidence 1 have in DIR. Niles, Heart
Remedy" A. r. CANON. Worth, NO.
The unbounded confidence MI.
Canon has in DR.. Miles Heart Rem
edy is shared by thousands of
others who know its vaiue from
experience. Many heart disorders
yield to treatment, if the treatment
is right. If you are bothered with
short breath, fainting spells, swell
ing of feet or ankles, pains about
the heart and shoulder blades, pal
pitation, weak and hungry spells,
you should begin using DIR. Mikes
Heart Remedy at once. Profit by
the experience of others while You
may. 8.
Or. Miles Heart Remedy IL sold and
guaranteed by all druggists.
MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhars, lnS.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-12-16

y. ". Glenn Sends Tobacco Seed I,
Many Farmers and Others May Sc,
core Il Free.
To the Farmers Of Sumter and Ad
Joining Counties:

To the Farmers OF Sumter and Ad-
joining Counties:
I have mailed tobacco seed to ov-
erybody on my mailing List and IL I
failed to send you tobacco seed and
you want some. call at the Chamber of
Commerce. Sumter. 8. c., and 1t will
be a pleasure for Mr.. f.. I. Reardon
to supply you.
We doubs IL there ever was a time
whom tobacco was selling 40 high.
Here In the old belt tobacco is aver
aging no per hundred every day and
i dare say with an average yield to
the acre. cotton can not compete with
the present prices being paid for to-
bacco. Now I am not advising you to
paint all tobacco and no cotton. but
plant both tobacco and cotton, and
by doing this you. viii do your par in
keeping up the present prices OF both.
There IL no disputing the fact that
these are prosperous times, especially
for the farmers. but IL the farmers
should food the markets with cotton
certainly the prices Of cotton will be
lower and tobacco higher. but IL he
should plant all tobacco then tobacco
VIII De lower and cotton higher. Ee
wise. MIR. Farmer, and always try and
keep you product In big demand.
You can do this only by dividing your
crop.
The demand for south Carolina
types Of tobacco win be big next year.
and n you will plant only what you
can stve the proper attention you may
expect profitable returns. Owing to
the short tobacco crops for the last
three or four years In South Carolina.
I wosld advise you to plant some to-
baccG will run Glenn's Warehouse.
Sumter. g. c.. next year and will al
ways give your tobacco my close at
tention and hope you Will let me sell
your tobacco for you.
Wishing you n happy Xmas and n
very prosperous New Year. I en-.
Your friend.
Jno. w. Glenn.
Proprietor Glenn's Warehouse. sum
ter. 8. C.
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'uWtn&fl ullaI.
THOSE IN STATE WHO FAVOR
b0SlAL SUFFRAGE TO TAKE
. QUESTION no LEGIs-
LATURE.


Columbia. Dec. 12.--Equal suffra-
sistseAre planning the Introduction of
. bnl in the approaching session Of
the Dunersi assembly FOR a referen-
dunn % the matter of granting to wo-
mem ths right Of the ballot. IL In not
knovns who will sponsor this bill IN
the Awo houses but every indication
points 40 It being pushed with all
vigoNs
tn Democratic state Convention
at - session last May endorsed wom-
sn Oforpge IND this will be. used as
n eft the arguments by the propo-
rents Of the proposed referendum.
Their viii call on the members of the
senePaA assembly to redeem the prom
isss made In the platform Of the STATE
Dsmacfacy TO give the women the
votsuOs at least to submit the ques-
ton to the qualified electors or the
state The legislature Is unanimously
Democratic In both branches and the
state convention represented the
rarity In the state a. pointed out by
the advocates Of equal suffrage and
the voics Of Democracy spoke for
giving the ballot to the women.
Equal suffrage In South Carolina
has grown rapidly In the last few
yearA In the last legislature the
houss came within ten votes Of pass
Ing the bill submitting the equal suf-
trace referendum e the people ana
II 10 believed that the proposition may
receive q majority In. the lower branch
In thu seventy-sscond general assem-
bly,. me attitude Of the senate Is
more uncertain and Il the question 10
acted favorably on by the house IT
will probably strike q snag in the SEN
ate unless there In a change In what
II believed to be the sentiment Of the
elder body
Gov. Manning has not indicated his
stand On the equal suffrage issue and
whsehsr or not he will touch on II In
his annual message to the Legislature
rsmains to be seen. II Is probable
that. no may have something to say.
rhsse ~ hardly any opposition to
the proposition to amend the Const!-
tutiep 30 a. to give the women the
r,ght to hold the once Of school trus-
tee 'and notary public. This amend
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-12-16
10 BUILD BIG FORT.
GROUND BROKEN FOR FORT
STOREY AT CAPE HENRY BY
COMMERCIAL CON-
GRESS,
A2aycrs Sounded for success of Ger
man Offer of Peace Negotiations
Secretary Wilson Delivers Address
-sRcfuse to Scatter Negroes.

Norfolk, Dec. lathe break
ing}of ground for Fort Storey at Cape
Henry, prayers for the success Of
peace offers made by Germany and
her allies, the tabling Of a resolution
fayortpg the distribution of the
Sonth's negro population among the
other States and an address by Secre-
tnfy ". B. Wilson of the department
Of labor were features of today's ac-
ttvities of the Southern Commercial
congress here.
Simple ceremonies marked the dcdi-
catian of the site for the great land
defense the government proposes to
erect for the protection of Hampton
Roads, Baltimore and Washington.
Gov. Stuart of Virginia turned the first
spade of earth.
Barrier in the day the National AS
ISOLATION of Commissioners of <Agri-
culture had met and discussed cotton
crop Investigation. conservation of
the South's and a better sys-
tenn of marketing. Some speakers
hailed the federal farm loan act as a
means of increasing the South's agri-
cultural yield by enabling tenant
farmers to become land owners
A movement to nave the congress to
gos on, record as favoring the location
Of, the proposed government nitrate
plant at Muscle Shoals, Ala, was
lapi iched at the first meeting of the
Weman's auxiliary Of the congress
this afternoon. Mrs. G. H. Mathes
Of, Alabama urged the adoption Of a
resolution which the Alabama delega-
tion was to offer.
The resolutions committee announc-
ing that the negro distribution resolu-
tiQn. offered by Judge Francis D.
Winston Of Windsor, n. c., had been
laid on the table. The committee TO-
night had not completed considera-
ton of other matters before it but it
was expected to report tomorrow.
~ 50
Cotton's relation to international
reconstruction was the subject of an
address by Col. Harvie Jordan, presi-
aenNof the Southern Cotton Growers
coneress. .,.,s
Speakers tonight besides Secretary
Wilson included President L. Il. John
FsNHAktha NorsolkS Western. resl:
road. r. ". stephens OF New York and
H. H. Rublei Of Norfolk.
After a spirited debate tonight the
resolutions committee voted to report
favorabiy q resolution urging that the
nitrate plant be located at Muscle
Shoals. Opposition to the naming OF
snysparticular site was offered by the
comHitteemenS from Florida and
South Carolina. while the committee
from Washington opposed the con-
grcss going on record in the matter
at all.
A. resolution asking the congress to
declare for equal suffrage was laid on
the, table, but the committee approved
one by Rear Admiral Dillingham;, u.
s. N. retired, urging has the per-
sonnet of the navy be Immediately in
creased by $4,000 to man fully the
present ships of the navy.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-12-16

Ono prize in the recent poultry
show of the Sumter Poultry ana
Pigeon Association was given for dis
play. This went to Dr. c. p. Ostoen
on best display In Buff Orpingto"n.
As there had 10 be three displays in
any class n ten birds in u dis play
Cfrom any one exhibitor) there were
no prizes for displays In other cla9a-
%.
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$217.88 and were reported in Union
as standing among the first ten chap
ters in amount of expenditure. Dues
n h production of FL FL last De-
cember furnished our funds. 49,,
The chapter has been represented
at the Pc Dee District Conference in
May by Mrs. A. c.. Phelps and your
president; at the General Convention
this fall in Dallas by your president;
at the Division Convention in Union
by Mrs. s. w. Stubs and Miss Min
ME Moses, your president being pres
snt and voting as the chairman Of a
standing committee of the Division.
/ make the following recommended
lions for u work in 1917:
l.. That a simple programme for
a Lees Birthday celebration be sent
the county schools and a book be Of
-fered the ten schools reporting the
best programmes and accounts Of the
day.
2. That We continue our scholar
ship and make another purchase for
the library.
3. That We continue to work 10 in
crease membership. making 100
our goal.
4. That We do more history work,
and endeavor to get cou of ex
periences from the Veterans.
Respectfully submitted,
Armida Moses, President.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-12-16

bed near q window
SO she could get
her breath One
doctor said, Poor
child. she is likely
to fall dead any
time A friend
told me Or. Niles
Heart Remedy had
cured her father.
so I tried Ii, and
she & TO I'M
prove. Sho took
a great many bot
ties. but she ID
spared to me to-
day- a fat r0SV
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-12-16
U. D. c.'S SUCCESSFUL YEAR.
MISS ARMEIDA MOSES RE-ELECT-
ED PRESIDENT IN ANNUAL
ELECTION OF OFF,
GERS.

Presidents Annual Report Tells of
Achievements During Past Year
and Makes Recommendations for
Continuance of Activities.
Dick Anderson Chapter, U. d. c.,
held its annual meeting last week
with Mrs. w. l.. Brunson as hos
tess. Officers We're elected as fol-
as follows:
President, Miss Armida Noses;
vice president, Mrs. w. l.. Brunson;
secretary, Mrs. c. l.. Tisdale; treas
urer, Miss Minnie Moses; historian.
Mrs. Sidney Stubs; registrar, Mrs.
M. H. Flaum.
At this meeting Mrs. Stubs gave
an interesting report of the convention
in Union which she had just attended.
Miss Moses presented the South Car
DINA flag which the chapter had been
awarded by the Division for gaining
the greatest number of new mem
bers in 1916.
"ihhuo iCPoIt VI the treasurer,
Miss Minnie Moses, gave some inter-
esting items, such as the expendi-
ture Of $40 on scholarships, $50 to-
wards L. d. G.. monuments, IS to-
wards keeping up the South Caro-
lima o in the Confederate Museum
in Richmond. $25.9S for books for
the local library, $14.35 on monu-
ment and cemetery plot, $2S on Me-
mortal Day exercises, IS towards the
support Of a Veteran. Other items
brought the chapters expenditure up
to $217.88.
The chapter voted to request The
Item to publish the presidents an
nual report which follows:
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-12-16

FL Paso, Dec. 14.-Villa has begun
his real drive on Torreon. was the ad-
vice received by military authorities
today. 1t is stated that Villa has left
San Andres Potomas with his main
forces, but leaving enough at Chi
huahua City to harass the C~arranzis-
tas.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-12-16

TO $Il7.SS. .,E
The chapter voted to request The
Item to publish the presidents an
nual report which follows:
-. 1t is- a pleasure to bring this report
to You on the second term of my pre-; :.
idency as the past twelve months
have, been a period Of great activity,
in which Dick Anderson Chapter has
taken decided steps forward. One
necessity for development was the in
crease. of our membership; this flag
which the Division has awarded us
testifies that We have succeeded there.
"A large active membership assures
good work and an interested public,
two things necessary to keep any
organization alive. The chapter now
numbers 6S. giving us three votes in
u. D. c. conventions. The next step
that looked to the perpetuatiop of our
organization was the formation, jan
Queen chapteh, Children of the Con-
f%ederacy. In 9 months this chapter
had filed 35 papers. Under the lead
ership of Misses Jennie Walsh and
Lucille Phelps, it is an active and
growing little chapter and deserves
our assistance and encouragement.
Realizing the vast field for work in
the education department of the L..
d. c., and it's Importance We have
rightly given it our chief attention.
We have contributed literally to our
Division scholarships at Winthrop
and Carolina and the Pee Dee District
scholarship at Winthrop and have
given $50 to help a most deserving
student pay her way at Winthrop. All
these beneficiaries are lineal descend
ants of Confederate Veterans. We
have further purchased 81 books on
the ~COnfederacy and the South as a
nucleus of a library on that sub
ject to be placed in the city library
when it is built. The children's
books among these have been put in
circulation in the Civic League lib
rary and have been eagerly ~ead. We
have endeavored to arouse the in
terest of the country schools in Con-
federate topics, hpt have met with
slight response: We should continue
work on~that line this year.
The u. d. c.. medal. which as usual
we bestowed in the High School, was
won by Miss Muriel Hatfield for best
paper on history of the
Confederacy
We have not accomplished much
along the line Of history but thanks
to the efforts Of Mrs. ". L. Saunders
we were enabled to file four original
papers, sketches of Sumter county
heroes. with the Division historian and
give a little help in the winning
of the Raines Banner for History for
1916.
Our annual dinner for the Veterans
last June was unusually successful, a
large number being present and the
seeming to enjoy everything
very much. That afternoon we en-
u auxiliary chapter with
a party. We have been the means
IF supplying the public with two
splendid lectures OH Confederate sub
lects during the past year, one by DR..
John A. BrunsOn on January 18th,
md the other by the Hon. Thomas l..
Mellow on Memorial day. Both the
Veterans VIZ We're assisting with funds
have passed away. Five times we
have had to place laurel wreaths on
he biers Of Veterans and we have lost
me of our own most active members
by death. Mrs. Lila ID. Knight.
D~., -o4,ol -- ---
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-12-16

DIR. ID M. Ramsay, president Of Green
ville Woman's college,; DR.. F.. w.
Skies. president of Cocker college. and
DrisJ. Il. White. president Of Ander-
son college.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-12-16

Paris. Dec. 13.-Thc Bulgarians
were repulsed by the Italians i'm an
ATTACK north of MOnastir, the war Of
flee announced.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-12-16

Norfolk. Dec. lit was discover
ed today that the British oil tank~r
Telsna rsmned the Powhatan ~
ChssaDsAks hay.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-12-16
Heart Disease Almost
Fatal to Young Girl

MY daughter. when thirteen years
old, was stricken with heart trouble.
She was so bad We had to place her
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-19
Stream Measurements in the Drainage
Basins Of the North Atlantic Slope.

One of a series of IA reports contain
ing the results Of measurements Of the
flow of the streams of the United States
made during the year ending Sept. 80.
1914, has just been published by the
United States Geological Survey, De-
partment of the Interior. as Water
Supply Paper 3S1. This report, which
forms Part I of the annual series en-
titled Surface water supply of the
United States, 1914 contains records
collected in cooperation with the states
of Maine, Vermont. Massachusetts. and
New York; and includes descriptions of
the stations at which the measurements
were made and tables showing daily
gage height and daily and monthly dis
charge.
The report is strictly technical and
will be useful principally to engineers
and others who may be interested in
the utilization Of the streams.
Copies Of Water-Supply Paper 3S1
may be obtained without charge by APP
plying to the Director, United States
Geological Survey. Washington, D. c.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-19
Disappearance of the Dinosaurs.

One of the most sudden changes in
animal life revealed in geologic history
took place about the close of the Meso-
zoic era. or Age of Reptiles" as it is
sometimes popularity called. In Meso-
zoic time tho most powerful animals
were huge land reptiles. known as dino
saurs. whose bones have been found in
abundance in the Rocky Mountain re-
gion. At or near the end of Mesozoic
time these great monsters suddenly dis
appeared from the western country, as
we'll as from the remainder of the
world. They left no descendants, but in
the following age of Mammals" or
Cenozoic era. their places as rulers of
the earth were taken by the mammals
The cause of the disappearance of these
great reptiles has been a matter of
rather fruitless speculation. Any ex-
PLANTATION which will be acceptable must
also account for the disappearance Of
q great many forms of animal life and
the great modification Of most Of the
others, both on the land and in the sea.
Some general cause which would bring
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-19
about changes in climate and other con-
ditions of life seems to be a necessary

about changes in climate and other con-
ditions of life seems to be a necessary
part of any satisfactory explanation.
One of the regions where dinosaurs
fingered long in swamps and river flood
plains was in northwestern New Mex
leo. though apparently that was not
! their last stronghold. The same region.
NOW included in San Juan county. has
long been we'll known to students of the
past life of the world, because it has
furnished the best and most varied re-
mains of a primitive mammal fauna
that came upon the scene soon after the
dinosaurs disappeared. 1t is extremely
interesting to find the contrasting verte-
brate life of the Mesozoic and the Ceno-
zoic eras in a single district and in sue
cessive deposits. all laid down by
streams on land.
| AS contribution to the history of
this interesting district the u. S. Geo
logical Survey. Department Of the In
terror. has just published a group of
short technical papers giving the re-
suits of recent studies in the later
Mesozoic rocks of northwestern New
Mexico and descriptions of the fossil
reptiles, shells, and plants found in
them. The papers are entitled: Stra-
tigraphy Of Part of the Chaco River
Valley, by c. M. Bauer (Prof. Paper
98-P); Vertebrate Faunas of the Ojo
Alamo. Kirkland, and Fruitland Forma-
lions, by c. w. Gilmore (Prof. Paper
500; Nonmarine Cretaceous Inver;e-
brates of the San Juan Basin, by r. W.
! Stanton Prof. Paper 9S-R); Flora OF
the Fruitland and Kirkland Formations,
by F. H. Knowlton (Prof. Paper 9S-S).
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Knocks Obstinate
; Coughs in q Hurry
A Simple Homemade Remedy
that Gets At the Cause.

Thousands of people normally healthy
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Pinex is q most valuable concentrated
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To avoid disappointment, ask your
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with this preparation. The Pinex Co.,
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