The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-05-11
SOME MORE BIG BUYERS of
STAMPS.

Sales Gradually Climbing, hut Sumter
Not Yet mt Top-Sales Not Wide
Enough Spread Out.
Add to Big Buyers:
r.. .. Booth 80. .. $4,000
T. L. Mclean. through Ingram
scnooi .. .. -. 10000
Everybody knows that DIR. Booth Is
progressive man so his name looks
quite natural in the Big Buyers list.
The doctor knows that the govern
ment needs a part of his money, and
he Is letting IL have IL, and he Is MAX
ing n nice saving to be cashed In la
ter when possibly times are hard.
Mr.. Mclean Is a lumber man get
ting out timber I'm the country. He
knows that war conditions have boost
ed the lumber business, so he Is let
ting part OF the money he has earn
ed go back to the government to help
prosecute the war. Could Mr.. Nc
Lean do better with 1t?
Miss Eleanor Kolb believes in War
Savings and believes In making 9TH
ers believe In them. She Is teacher
of Ingram school. and under her in
spiration that little school has sold
$i52.25 worth OF stamps. all the mor-
ey from the same going to help fight
the war. Would that there were
more like her.
The ladies' committees on the street
and at the big tent have been doing
fine work and many dollars have
gone their route to the treasury in
Washington. The sales at the tables
Saturday and at Chautauqua that
night and the orders taken there for
deliveries OF stamps amounted to
near six hundred dollars. To do all
this and to handle the stamps for 1t
takes a lot of time. If a man wanted
$4,000 In bonds he would probably
y.
But I'm War Savings the largest unit
rs the $500 stamp. Much time there
fore is taken to handle IL. The work
ers OF tho War Savings forces how
ever. give OF their time cheerfuily. be-
cause they are helping Uncle Sam.
Right here the committee wants to
thank the Boy Scouts for taking out
the stamps to fill the orders and col
lecting for them.
The report OF the director of War
Savings for April 27th gives Sumter
18th place with sale OF s24,s11.75
and a per capita OF 5sc. Lee County
is ahead OF Sumter. Now, what dc
you know about that? All you Til
Toppers you will have to get a hustle
on. or your name will be a Joke. War
Savings and Thrift Stamps are not
sold In campaigns and drives. but IL is
work that goes steadily on and must
flow smoothly and steadily as long a.
the war lasts. Everybody must come
In and must lend hand because n,
one person buys I'm big lots. In tn,
last Liberty loan campaign there wa.
one taking OF bonds by one man that
was greater than the whole sale o.
war stamps so far. No one is allowet
TO buy over $1,000 worth of stamps
they are meant TO be held by every
body. In this county many OF tn,
communities are slow to take hold
and II ls because OF this condition
that the countys sales are small.
Wayman's Chapel. colored churcl
at stateburg organized six War sav
ings Societies In less than an hou
Sunday afternoon. That's setting "a,
example.
The War Savings Committee
planning district War Savings meet
ings In different parts OF the county
These meetings are to be strict
War Savings. and nothing else. on
trouble now Is that the War Saving
has always been a side issue alon
with something else. These meeting
uuII hava nofhtno afoa