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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-07-27

| hereby announce that | am a
candidate for the Office OF Solicitor for
the Third Circuit. subject 10 the ac-
ton of the Democratic Primary.
FRANK y. AIl.EOD.
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Tobacco is bringing high prices ana
those who are selling are well pleas
eel with the returns. great deal OF
the tobacco now coming on the mar
ket is selling for forty cents Il pound
and higher.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-07-27

666 cures Headaches, Biliousness
Loss of Appetite. or that tired ach-
ms feeling. due to Malaria or Colds
Fine Tonic.-Advt.
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sss cures Bilious Fever.-Advt.


Amsterdam, June 25 Correspond
cnce OF The Associated Prcss)-Thc
German newspapers are much agitat.
eel over an epidemic OF horse ,stcaline
an Berlin. I'm "a single week recently.
horses valued at s25. 900 were stolen
In Berlin. most OF them while stand
ing In the streets In daylight. Thc
animals are sold IN the provinces.
where they fetch fancy prices. or are
used for clandestinc butchering i'm
Berlin. A pair of Gnc race horses re-
Gently disappeared during a race
meeting at the Grnnewald course.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-07-27
AUSTisIA'S NEW PREMIER.
Baron Won IIusSarck Named for Dill
cult Position.

Vienna. July 25.--Raron Won Illus
sarek has been appointed Austrian
premier.
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Registration Notice.

The County Board of Registration
Will he in their Office at the Court
House, continuously from July 1st to
August 31st, excepting July 4th, for
the purpose OF registering all qualified
voters of the county of Sumter, as the
law requires.
\. d. DUBOSE.
JIM. N. WILDER,
]. A. REAMES,
Supervisors of Registration.
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666 cures by removing the caus,
-Advt.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-07-27

SIS contains no alcohol. arsenic. nor
other poisonous drugs.--Advt.
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SUMTER COTTON MARKET.
corrected daily at II O'Clock Noon
p. c.. BOWMAN, Cotton Buyss.

Good Middling 80.
Strict Aliddling - "a.
Middling 29 IL.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-26
They'll Be Popular in Topeka
Under daylight Saving" Bill.
1t Will Also Be Boon to Tennis,
Golf and Baseball Bugs.
time FOR WAR GARDENS
Even Prisoners in Jails Will
Reap Some Benefit.
What To Do With Sun DialS Is
the Only Thorn.

Ahho the daylight saving bill, eff
| factive March 81, will create no
change in Topeka's industrial life 9TH
er than to open the working day an
hour earlier and close it correspond
inSly, the turning forward of the
clock will it is declared, completely
reorganize the citys social and re-
creation activities.
In quitting work at 3 o'clock under
the new time, Topekans will be III
reality quitting at o'clock under the
old system or sun time. For the
golfer this means an extra round or
two on the links. For the tennis
ficnds it means a couple of extra
sets after dinner or before, according
to his OF her desire. The greatest
boon IN the sport line, however, Will
probably be to baseball. Because OF
the fact that the games. under the
the day many an additional ''admis-
SION will flow into the Golfers OF
the league. Baseball fans will be
able to get away from the office or
shop earlier and thereby find more
chances to keep interested in the ma
| tional pastime.
Daylight Lawn Parties.
! Because of the new system day
light lawn parties have their chance
to get into vogue, especially in June
and July when under the new time
the Hrn will not disappear until, on
| the average, at $50 o'clock. The
| latter part of June daylight will
| finger until nearly 9 O'Clock This
does not include dusk, that period of
semi-dayIight that fingers long after
the sun fades into the western ridges
And truly this summer is to become
famous for the inauguration of ''tWi-
light" motor rides.
another thing hV no means the
least of importance, the suburbanite
will have the chance of putting in an
extra. hour in the evening, in the cool
of the day. on that war garden. BY
doing so he will be helping to lick the
kaiser with foodstuffs. Even Father
Time is changing his ways to handi-
cap the "murderous Hun
What About Sun Dials?
Some thorns. however, are strewn
in this path of roses. For instance.
owners of sun dials submit a compi-
Gated question relative to how they
are going to use their sun dialS.
Either they must use them for orna-
mental purposes only-this is a sun
diaTs chief excuse for existing in mod
ern times anyway-or alter the num-
erals for the period that the hands of
the clock are changed. There are
several such dials in the city, the
largest being in Washburn campus,
Gage park and Rochester cemetery.
In turning the clock forward, pris-
oners at the county and city jails may
! find food for optimism. The clock
really, until it is turned back late this
| fall, skips an hour and every little bit
helps Employers of large forces of
men and women aye preparing them
| selves for April l. the first working
| day on the new time schedule 1t is
| expected that the most popular. of the
April Fool gags will be played by the
clocks whose owners have forgotten to
| turn them forward. Employers will
''see the point when their help be-
gins to struggle into the office an hour
| late.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-26
TO GIVE ALL A VOICE
That Is Plan of Proportional Repre-
scntation League.

Walter. J. Willard, field secretary of
the American Proportional Repre-
sentation league. explained at the
Chamber of Commerce Monday the
habit OF the politicians of America
of controlling elections by. the swing
ing of just q. few votes in doubtful
sections. Willard declared that pro-
portional representation is the very
thing that Germany is fighting
against.
At the very outbreak of the war
a d before" asserted Willard, Ger
many said in effect to Belgium and
other small countries. Germany is
more powerful and more wealthy
than you. therefore, we should rule
absolutely and without dissension
from you
TT is to do away with this very
thing that the American armies are
today fighting in the mud of Elan
ders." declared Willard. 1T is to es-
tablish the principle that the wish of
the majority must be tempered with
the wish of the minority in order to
make just and equitable government
that our boys have gone over there
Little Change Means Much.
One of the startling statements
made. by Willard in regard to the
present system of voting in America is
that AN 1S- per cent change in the
votes of the country has changed con-
gress sixty per cent in political COM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-26
DROP GAS BOMBS
New Variety From Airplane
Explode in Midair.
Hun Planes Play at Will Over
American Lines.
(By the Associated Press.)

With the American Army in France,
Sunday. March 24.-An enemy air
plane early this morning cut off its
engines at a great height over the
American lines northwest of Toul and
p1aned down. When close to the
ground it dropped quantity of
bombs. Some were of a new variety
which exploded in mid-air with a
blush red flash and gave off a cloud
of mustard gas. Being heavier than
the air, the mustard gas quickly de-
scended toward some of our battery
positions and a road.
After the machine disappeared the
German gas shell bombardment began
Another enemy airplane lowered over
the town while the bombardment with
gas shells was in progress. The
weather was especially suitable today
for aerial work. and the Germans took
advantage of it.
teen enemy airplanes crossed between
noon and o'clock in the evening.
while four friendly ones were over the
American line in the same period.
One group of seven enemy ma
chimes. apparently on bombing ex-
and driven off by the rapid fire of
American anti-aircraft guns
Find Papers on Dead Huns.
The American patrol has brought in
Quantities of valuable papers from
the bodies of five Germans killed in
a shell hole by American artillery
fire a few days ago. Among the pa
pers taken from an elderly soldier
was a letter from his daughter saying:
I'VE are being told that peace will
surely come IN July or August Every
body was highly elated when the news
of the Russian peace was received
The entire American contingent
from generals to privates eagerly
awaits news from the British front. All
are confident that the Germans event
ually will be defeated severely, even
if they should strike hard at the out
set The German offensive is the sole
topic of discussion on the American
sector. Official communications are
caught by wireless operators and news
papers are circulating rapidly along
the front.
Gas Bomb Town Behind Line.
For the third successive day Ger
man artillery today bombarded neav-
lily with gas shells a certain town
within the American lines. Today
bombardment was made in two pc
RODS, each a half hour in length.
Many gas shells and a few high ex-
plosive shells fell on the American po-
Sitions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-26
STOP DANDRUFF!
HAIR GETS THICK
WAVY. BEAUTIFUL
Girls! Draw a cloth through
your hair and double
g. its beauty.
Spend a few cents! Dandruff
vanishes and hairs stops
coming out.

To be possessed of a head of heavy,
beautiful hair; soft. 1ustrous, fluffy.
wavy and free from dandruff is merely
a matter of using little Danderine.
1t is easy and inexpensive to have
nice. soft hair and lots of it. Just get
q small bottle of knowlton's Dan
derine now-all drug stores recon-
mend it-apply a little as directed and
within ten minutes there viii be an
appearance of abundance. freshness.
fiuffiness and an incompatible gloss
and l..stre, and try as you will you can
not find a trace of dandruff or falling
hair; but your real surprise will be
after about two weeks use. when you
will see new hair-fne and dOwny at
first-yes-but really new hair
sprouting out all over your scalp
-Danderine is, we believe. the only sure
hair grower, destroyer of dandruff and
cure for itchy scalp and it never fails
to stop falling hair at once.
If you want to prove how pretty and
soft your hail really is, moisten a cloth
with a little Danderine and carefully
draw it through your hair-taking one
small strand at a time. Your hair will
be soft glossy and beautiful in just a
few Moments delightful surprise
awaits every one who tries this--Ad-
vertisement-
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HAS FAMILY pep
Mrs. L. R., Jr., Used Strategy
To Get to France.
Now She's Doing Great Work in
Camp Y. M. C. A.

Aix-Les-Bains, March 26.-Mrs.
Theodore Roosevelt jr.. wife of Major
Roosevelt who is now in the trenches
with his troops, is at Chambery. where
the Y. M. C. A. recently esta blished a
foyer du soldat, the French equiva-
lent of the American Y. NJ. c. a.
Mrs. Roosevelt is not overly anxious
in France. owing to the fact that she is
the wife of an officer, and officers
wives are not particularly welcome
in France.
how, by strategem she was able to
get to France. Before congress pass
ed the hard, hard law concerning Off
GERS wives, Mrs. Roosevelt, who was
then in Washington, got an advance
Tip" that such a restriction was to be
put into effect
Without waiting to collect her bag
gage or other personal effects or to
say goodbye to her friends, she board
ed train for New York, leaped into
a taxicab and on Saturday afternoon
raj up the gangplank of a French line
steamer half an hour before it sailed.
Fortunately there was a cabin vacant.
a friend supplied her with passage and
expense money and-well, it was all
breathless adventure-next day, while
the French liner was off Sandy. Hook
on it's way to France, the New York
papers published the dire news re-
gal riding the officers wives restrictions.
Docs Not Like Publicity.
- And now Mrs. Roosevelt won't let
the photographers take her picture,
nor permit reporters to tell how she
organized the Y. NJ. c. A canteens.
smoking rooms and casino reading
rooms She does not care to have
anything said about the fact that she
is the manageress of the Y. M. c. A.
castle of Chambery, which is housed
in an ancient chateau where the dukes
of Savoy Used to wassail in the good
old days before the American Y. NJ.
c. A. put the ban on French wines and
sliquors of all descriptions.
Mrs. Roosevelt is doing her best in
organizing entertainments for the boys
in the French theaters attChambery; ;
has Encouraged the negro 1azz band to
come" over from AK to play those
glory hallelujah tunes.
+ The boys have Mrs. Roosevelt to
thank for many things. . She was in
sfstent that they should get a "regu
Tlar'' American breakfast in the morn.
ing instead Of the French rolls and
black coffee.
~ Moreover, she saw to it that for the
s22O to as3.4o a day which the boys
pay for their hotel accommodations
they get free baths tsomething un-
heard of in France) and rea! Ameri-
can. shine" for their shoes instead of
French lick and a dab which passes
current for shine.
As neither the American army nor
the Y NJ, c. A. control the AK,
Chambery and Challes les Faux
hotels, Mrs -Roosevelt's interventions
were much appreciated by both or
CARNATIONS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-26
HUNS IN CHICAGO
CELEBRATE VICTORY
so ARE ARRESTED

Chicago, March 2e.-More than
fifty persons were arrested last night
for celebrating the German offensive.
Early in the evening police were at
tracted to one house by stratus of Die
Yacht Am Rhein,' and as a result
of arrests made there, federal and
civic authorities combined in a drive
turnout a German settlement, where
it was found that a general celebra-
ton was being held. German flags
were displayed in many places and in
many houses groups were found sing
ing German songs. Bonfires also were
lit in some parts of the city
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-26
WITH GRIM FACE
Americans Facing Battle Shock
With Determination.
Elected in Liberty Loan.
must Be NO LETUP HERE"
There'n Always Be a Demand
Until War Is Over.
Feed Increasing Population and
Allies Across Sea.
MUST Be NO LETUP HERE"

Washington, March 26.-Shocked
by the impetus of the great German
smash, American officials today re-
acted with grim determination to
throw all energy into the mobilization
of supplies behind the fighters.
The thrill of the battle and the con-
fidence of the country is reflected in
the launching of the new S3,000,000.-
600 liberty loan at only X per cent
announced by Secretary McAdoo.
The great events now happening
in France said McAdoo, must fire
the soul of every American with new
determination to furnish all the dol
lars and all the material resources of
America needed to put an end to the
execrable atrocities of German mill
tarism.- Defeat faces the kaiser Let
US hasten it by asserting Americas
might with increased vigor in concert
with our gallant comrades"
Secretary of Agriculture Houston,
just returned from bumper crop
campaign thru the south, warned the
farmers they must make record this
year.
TT is too soon" said Houston to-
day, ito make any general prediction
that food production this year will es-
tablish a record. But there is great
activity on the farms and this is hope
full and encouraging.
Must Be No Let Up.
many difficulties and produced record
crops. There must be no letup. We
must continue to feed our increasing
population and at the same time we
must spare more to the nations with
US in the war. This demand will con-
tnue for some time after the war
ends"
Response of southern farmers to the
governments appeal for greater acre
age of food and feedstuffs, is very
encouraging" Houston says.
Tonight Chairman Hurley of the
shipping board will lay before the
country the shipbuilding situation
crux of Americas war work-as an
indirect appeal for greater and ever
more cooperation by the whole
people. r..
1t will be frank discussion of the
governments difficulties and the OUT
look for the program-and means
that tremendous effort is needed this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-26
FIFTY WOMEN IN
MOB THAT MADE
HUNS KISS FLAG

Lima, o.. March 26.-Five business
men of Delphos, German settlement
in western Allen county. near here.
accused of pro-Germanism, were
hunted out by a volunteer vigilance
committee of 400 men and fifty wo-
men of the town, taken into bril-
liantly lighted down town street and
forced to publicly salute and kiss the
American flag last night under pain
of being hanged.
Three others, also business men,
made their escape from the mob.
Leaders declared. according to word
received here. that the demonstration
will be repeated tonight, until all sus-
pected prot Germans have been pun
ished.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-26
TO LECTURE ON CALF
John p. Clum Will Be C. of C. En-.
tertainer Next Week. p

John P. Clum, of California, is to
be the attraction at the Chamber of
Commerce at 8 o'clock the evening of
Wednesday, April 3. Clum is travel
lecturer of some note, and according
to w. A. Biby, chairman of the enter
tainment committee of the c. of c.
he is fully the equal of Burton
Holmes. No charge will be made for
the entertainment which is to be put
on as the initial effort of the enter
tainment committee under the leader
ship of Chairman Biby.
Biby said this morning that if the
attraction on April is success and
the members and their friends like it.
the course will be extended to include
eight travel lectures all illustrated
Clum's first lecture will be an illus
trated affair on California. If the
people like this one. his second one
will be on the Yukon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-26
Why These World Famous Athletes and
Strong Men Take Nuxated Iron as a
Tonic, Strength and Blood Builder. 1t
will Increase the Strength of Weak, Ner-
vous, Rundown Folks in Two Weeks
Time in Many Instances.

xuyHEN interviewed on the baseball
N/ field; Harry Hooper; famous star
I'm the Worlds Series Games
every player is put on his mettle He must
and af first Innings min " for NO score ms Is cIoseh
while single batter has an unpitched ball
ahead of him Since I have made Nuxated
Iron part of my regular training. have
found myself possessed of strength. power
and stamina to meet the most severe
strains.
Joe jackson. star batter of the Chicago
White Sox.'' Winners OF the last Worlds
Championship Baseball Series. said: "Nux-
wire and gives him die never say die
strength and endurance. When / see in the
PAPERS ,gacksons batting vas vas responsible
to it-'Nuxated Iron puts the power behind
the bat and gives the needed punch to every
play" In the office of his manager on
broadway. Freddie Hill when champion en-
durance racer of the World, said: I'm no
test of endurance and stamina do men need
such tremendous reserve strength and
power as in six-day bicycle race. Doctors
have always told me, and believe have
must be filled with iron to stand the ter
rifle strain on mind and body. People
ma rvel at my great strength and endurance
after having had such disastrous fall In
flicting conclusion of the brain. The seer t
is Nuxated Iron. 1t has put the ld-tiIue
pep and vim in my blood. and actually
made stronger and better man than
was at any previous time in my whole
career" Commenting upon the remarkable
results which Nuxated Iron has produced
for these and other athletes in so many
branches of sport. Dr. James Francis Sui
Ivan, formerly physician of Bellevue Hos
pitaI (Outdoor Dept New York and the
Westchester County Hospital said There
are thousands of men and women who need
a strength and blood builder. but do not
know what to take. In my own opinion
there is nothing better than organic iron
Nuxated Iron-for enriching the blood and
helping to increase the strength and en-
durance of men and women who burn up
too rapidly their nervous energy in the
strenuous strain of the great business COM
petition of the day. Nuxated Iron helps
give a man the power to put forth the ex-
ira effort necessary to win. whether 1t be
in athletics or commercial life
But you can't make strong. vigorous
successful, sturdy iron men by feeding
! them metallic iron. any more than you can
build up strength End health by feeding a
man on hay. The old forms of metallic
| iron must go through a semi-digestive pro-
cess to transform them into organic iron
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-26
THIS WILL MAKE
MILLIONS HAPPY
Any corn will dry up and lift
out, says a Cincinnati
authority.

Let folks step on your feet her.
after; wear shoes size smaller if you
like. Tor corns will never again send
electric sparks of pain through you,
according to this authority.
He says that a few drops of drug
called freezone, applied directly upon
"a tender, aching corn, instantly re-
I,ieves soreness. and soon the entire
corn. root and all lifts out without
pain.
This drug is sticky but dries at once
and is said to simply shrivel up the
corn without infaming or even irri-
Ftatins the surrounding tissue.
1t is claimed that a quarter of an
Eounce of freezone obtained at any
fdrug store will cost very little but is
sufficient to remove every hard or
Esoft corn or calfus from ones feet.
FCut this out. especially if you are a
woman reader who wears high heels
advertisement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-26
MUSICIAN IN A CELL
Boston Symphony Orchestra Director
Jailed as Pro-German

Boston, Mass, March 26.-Dr Karl
Muck, director of the Boston SYM
phony orchestra and loaned to that
organized by the kaiser, sat in a cell
here today as an alien enemy. He
was not permitted bail
Federal authorities. under whose
orders the former director of the
Royal Opera house at Berlin was ar
rested, refused to make any comment.
Mrs. Muck characterized her hus-
bands arrest as "preposterous." say
ing she was confident of his release.
Maj Henry L. Higginson, owner of
the orchestra, was i'll at his home and
no statement could be obtained on the
arrest of Muck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-26
BANDITS RAID A RANCH
Shoot Boy Seven Times and Three
Mexicans Killed by Raiders

Maria, Tex, March 26.-Glenn Ne
Vile, IS years DID,. was shot seven
times and two Mexican men and one
Mexican woman killed in raid by
Mexican bandits on the Neville south
ranch forty-three miles south of Van
Horn, Tex, at 1880 O'Clock this
morning.
Reports to district military head
quarters here early today told of the
casualties.
Soldiers and Posse Into Action. S
Earlier reports had said J. H.
Neville, owner of the ranch. had been
killed. Troops from Evert's ranch
arrived at the ranch shortly after the
raid. The sheriff at Van Horn and
a party of citizens left for the ranch
at a. m. to take up the trail of the
bandits. Glenn Neville was seriously
wounded. but still alive at last re-
ports. The bandits looted the ranch
and escaped. =
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-26
UP TO SUPREME COURT
Tribunal Agrees to Expedite Cox
Case in Settling Draft Issue.

Washington, March 26.-The right
of the government to draft men under
the selective service act for foreign
service will be- determined by the
supreme court. In an order. made to-
day, the court agreed to expedite the
case of Robert Cox, who by a petit
ton for a writ of habeas corpus.
which was denied by the lower court,
attempted to obtain his release from
the national army. into which he had
been drafted, and fixed April / 5, next,
for hearing arguments.
Cox is stationed at Camp Funston,
Kan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-26
WHAT GERMAN SUPER-GUN
MAY DO TO THE ALLIES!

The great German gun which is
reported to be able to shell Paris
from a distance of seventy miles
could accomplish these feats with
the same range:
Shell Dover and Canterbury,
England. across the English chan
mel from Ostend, Belgium.
Throw shells into Venice from
Trieste. in Austria, firing across the
Adriatic sea.
Reach Paris from any point
along the eighty miles of the Ger
man front.
Shell New York City from Tren-
ton, n. J., or Poughkeepsie. Ny