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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24
For Miss ToodIcs.

1t was the first piece Of mail for
Miss Toodles." When the maid an
swered the bell, the postman asked /:
"Ts there Miss Toodles lives here? I
know that Mr.. +. lives here. so I Just
wanted to make sure"
The maid replied: "Yes, that letter
belongs here and YOU may have many
more Of them. While Mr.. Il. Is on his
trip "a F;orda he thinks the dog gets
lonesome and this letter Is for me to
read 10 Miss TOodles."
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24
.lt Pays I'd Advertise


secretary Reardon say,y "Any nun
who thinks II doesn't pay 20 c.lvcrttse
I'm Sumter newspapers. any man who
thinks for a moment that the Daily
Item is not read by nearly cverybody,
aud sast but not least. any body who
thinks that the "Reardon Booscttes.'
are not read Is worry much inlsta.Sen.
And why alI this talk. Well, ne. said
that right after the Item got out last
night his watermelon got hot while
he was answerins the phone and he
had to beg his wife for another slice,
And ladies' all over the town were call
ing and telling hira that they had just
read his 3. o. s. call for rooms and
table board In the Daily Item. He
received ten responses for robins be-
fore nine a. m. today.
The tobacco buyers and other tobac-
90 men viii be OF can be cared for In
GOOD style and In comfort I'm Sumter
In fact the Sumter Chamber OF Com
mercc has never yet failed to get all
the rooms needed when the need for
such was put straight to Sumter people
On several occasions within tho past
tnrec months as many as three hun
dred rooms were secured for conven-
tfons.
The way that the good ladies OF
smfer have responded to the call for
rooms for the tobacco men and their
lady folks In very gratifying TO the
Chamber OF Commerce indeed. The
moral OF this little tale--because every
well written story should have It's well
modelled moral--is that n pays 10 ad-
vertise. and to advertise In Sumter
newspapers.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24

Mrs y. l.. Exams. formerly Mis-,
Marie Sparks. of this city. while on a
VISIT 20 Der uncle. Mr.. II. M. SpeRcer.
near Cheraws was taken suddenly III
saturday nisht aud died In few
hoors, The fuoersl and burial services
were heid az Chesterfield. and the In
'ermenr gas made at the Chesterfield
cemetery.
Mrs' Evans Is survived by her hus-
pand ana one SO, and one daughter,
one five and the other two and a-ahll
years old.
Mrs. Evans hat host OF friends In
th's city who viii be saddened by her
unexpected death.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24
01''MUCH' RIVER
Historic Thames Not Imposing
to Americans.
captain Seth Buiiock's Humorous
Anecdots Matched by Comment
Made by New England Teach.
or on Famous Stream,

When Capt. Seth Bullock, pioneer
roughrlder and longtime sheriff OF
south Dakota, was invited by his
friend, Theodore Roosevelt, TO join
him I'm London, one OF the reasons for
the invitation was that after his siren.
nous African and Egyptian expert
ences and In the midst of his scarcely
less strenuous social and political ones
In England, "the colonel said he want.
ed some fellow over there that could
help him laugh" so Captain Bullock
related, "and I was elected.
Upon my arrival. seeing that the
colonel was being overworked by his
many official engagements OF state" he
continued In a conversation which Mr..
Travers ID. Carman recently reported
IN the Outlook, II decided that he
needed relaxation with some plain
chap he didn't have to bother about,
90 walked him over the Thames rIv-
or bridge. The river was at extremely
low tide. and knowing that the Thames
was to an Englishman what the Mis-
slssippl or the Hucson Is to an Amer.
lean. waited until particularly
haughty-looking Englishman with a
carefully adjusted monocle approach.
ed, and, without an inkling to the
colonel of what I Intended, asked II
ne could tell me the name Of the
creek. The plying, panied and bored
way In which the Englishman replied,
That my good fellow, Is our river
Thames served its purpose, and kept
the colonel chuckling at intervals for
the remainder Of the day."
A New England teacher travelling a
few years ago with a party Of tour.
lists had the pleasure of hearing q COM
ment on the not-always-impresslve
Thames, uttered In all sincerity by
an American Of primitive type from
the land OF far-stretching prairies and
the vast, Mississippi He had inher-
tied a fortune. and to please his young
bride bud consented to a honeymoon
trip abroad. Europe. he admitted, had
In some respects exceeded his expec-
tations. but In others It was distinctly
unsatisfactory. This river Thames,
now ..e
Lizzie" ne demanded, turning to
his wife. you sure this is the
Thames?"
Lizzie was sure.
"The Magma Charta ThamesT he
pursued insistently.
Lizzie's guide book was In her hand
and she was sure Of that, too.
"Well," mused her husband In a
nneditative drawl; "if US Americans
had signed the Declaration OF Inde-
pendence In Dan Skinner's medder,
say, or some such handy stretch of
land along Skunk creek. mebbe. fer
the sake Of history. we'd have named
the creek over and turned 1t into a
river. Mebbe 'twould have been the
river Skames, or something. i guess
II must have happened that way with
the Britishers. III 1t wa'ht fer his
tory, Lizzie. I'd bet my boots this creek
would be a creek I"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24
AustralIa's OIL.

While Australia Is Offering bonus
OF 10000 for the discovery of COM
mercial qtltn the commonwealth. Mex
leo is likely to absorb oil activities
for some time. according to the verdict
Of @. d. Meudell. a Victorian oil expert
who has been touring In western Amer
lea. He found. he says. that the lead
Ing companies are so heavily commit
ted In Mexico that Australlas bonus Is
not attractive. The British and Aus
tralian governments. however, have
agreed 10 test thoroughly former Ger
man New Guinea and Papua for. oil.
bearing territory.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24
CAs dolsitsniaa aaS SSa!Dtsll


Mcsars. John H. and Charles Hayns-
: worth and Charlss w. and Clinton
McGrow and Ansley Brunson have re-
turned from a pleasant trip to Paw
Iey's Islsnd.
Miss Edna Sheppard of Madison
Ga. is the guest of Miss Alleen Car
roll.
Mr. @. j. Myers, and family have
Gone Tor two weeks stay at Ashe-
VmS. NC.
MIss Aliscn Carroll has returned
home from a visit to Madison. Ca.
Mrs G. III. DeLolme. Mrs. j. ID Car
roll ana Nils P'anche Anna Kingman
left last nig,, for Bnmios haGi. A,a..
whiting reIutives.
Mtdb Edna Bone.i Is visiting In Hen
derSonvilie. ~. G.
Mrs. c, w. McGrsw and son Eugene,
are spSnding some time with relatives
IN Calhoun county.
Mis- Mary Stuchey has returned to
the city after a few days stay In Null
Ars w. 8. Reynolds and Miss Grac.
Reyncids have returned to the city at
ter q months stay In Atlanta with the
formers daughter. Mrs. H. G. Sorry.
Mr.. and Mrs. @. L. Smith of st.
Charles are visiting In town today.
Mr.. zook Schwartz leaves this
week for New York on an extended
vis>t.
Mrs II. w. Hood is visiting her
mother. Mrs A, B Stuckey.
mr.. and Mrs. u. G Wallace and
Mise Eleanor, and Wilton Wallace are
visiting relatives in Norwood, N. C.
Nr Donney Kirten rs spending the
dSy IN town.
was visitor In town the first Of the
week.
Niss Virginia ldobley viii return
90 Augusta. tomorrow after visit to
Mr.. w. ID. Fraser
Ats9 Warren, from Georgia. Is WIS.,
itnv Miss Marie H,arimett.
Miss Smith, of Camden. is visiting
Mrs Abe weinber,,.
Mr., Clifton Dorm of Atlanta Is WIS.,
ittnw hts mother. tl3
Mr.. James Hood will leave soon for
Tucson, Ariz.. where he will make his
home.
| ~~-s>s 2sse- -. OctCtn duu tuul
iiy lsft Tuesday for waynesviiie. N. c.,
for two weeks stay.
Mr.. n. j. Westberry is spending a
while ut Florence. I'll. /,
Miss Roth OF Savannah Is visiting
a. the home or Dr. L. p. Durant, on
Liberty street. l.s',,
Mss Florence Walker or Ohio is
visiting Mrs. Al Reels. on Sumter
s<r,ef- aN.t.
Mrs w. M. Folsom and family have
sore to kanooga Lake, M c.. to spend
tbs remainder OF the summer.
Mrs a. King OF kingsburg Is VISIT
no Mrs. III. W., Nttchirf
Mrs Cam Stubb, Is spending some
time at Myrtle Beach.
Mr.. Hcyward Crowson has return
I'd homo from Sulivans Island.
M1A Marion Platt and children left
Aonday for q weeks stay at sullivan's
Island. ~ 3I
Mr.. Charles Hamilton left this
morning for Bcnncttsville to accept a
posttion with the Western Union there.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24
AS PEACE Omen
Worshipers in Cathedral Looked
:. on Doves Visit.
At Least an Interesting Coincidence
That Birds Appearance Was Just
Before the Series Of Battles
That Smashed Huns.

How traditions and legends grow up
around cathedrals is told In a story by
Dr. Edward Hagaman Hall, author of
the first guide book of the Cathedral Of
st. John the Divine. which made its
appearance on Sunday last. said the
New York Evening Sun recently.s The
book is published by the Laymen's club
or the cathedral. The story is about
the chapel Of st. Boniface in the ca
thedral. sometimes called the German
chapel, and runs as follows:
In the spring OF 1913, some weeks
after the great German drive Of March
II had begun and before the begin
ming of the ter-offenslve ef tho
second battle Of the Marne in July, the
large stained-glass window in the clere-
story OF the choir above the entrance
to the chapel Of st. Boniface arrived
from England. All the ventilation
openings in the cathedral windows are
screened to exclude birds, which, how
ever interesting In their natural hab.
itats. are a practical nuisance In the
cathedral. ~
"When the stained-glass window
was ready to be put into place the
temporary window filling the space
above the entrance to the chapel was
removed for it's installation. While the
window was thus open, and at period
In the war when the Issue trembled
In the balance and the world fairly
held its breath In fearful expectation
OF the event, a white dove-very gem
orally recognized as a symbol or har.
binger c peace-flew into the cathe-
dral over this chapel.
"On the following Sunday II scared
around in the great dome of the cross-
Ing aud in the choir, alighting In the
most interesting places. When Dean
Roberts ascended the stairs Of the
great marble pulpit he found the dove
perched on the edge of the pulpit d.
rectly before. him. The dove then few
around and alighted on the back OF a
vacant chair between two occupied
chairs In the midst Of the congrega-
tion on the south side Of the cross
ing, and there remained quietly during
the sermon.
"When the ushers started toward the
altar with the offertory the bird scared
across the congregation and aiighted
on the hat of a woman dressed in
mourning, who was sitting near the
middle aisle. It's snow-wltte plumage
contrasting strikingly with the soInber
attire Of the bereaved woman, who
seemed not to be disturbed by what
perhaps she regarded as happy omen.
In moment the dove flew to another
part Of the crossing. It remained in
the cathedral a few Days longer; and
then one day went out through an open
door.
"Soon after this occurrence the allies
facing the Marne salient. including the
Americans at Chateau Thierry, began
the great counter movement, which
finally brought peace. 1t was at least
an interesting coincidence that this
white dove came into the cathedral
over the chapel at the very crisis OF
the war. and that almost Immediately
thereafter began that series of deter
mined events which led the Germans
to make overtures for peace"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24

The Nel1e car, belonging to Mr.. w.
VI. folSom, started off on an explora-
ton trip on Main street Wednesday,
u decldtd To get some groceries be-
Tore IT started and crashed into the
plate glass window of the Peoples
Grocery. Here it stopped amidst the
ruins of the windows. Mr.. Folsom
was working on the car in the parking
space, and it was in gear when he
started It up To test it. this causing
the car to RIM up on the sidewalk and
break the window of the grocery.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24

Columbia. July 22-South Carolina
Democrats vii back Cox and Roosevelt
To the limit In their fight for party sue
cess I'm November. The dollar demo
cracy campaign went forward YES
terday with greag impetus. Democrats
sent ther doilorh In from all sections
Oh south Carolina. Some OF the ar.
dent supporters az the cause increased
their ecntribuiiolls 10 Sc,
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24
Anti-Saloon League
Meets

Washington. July 22.-The part the
anti saloon league will play in the po-
itical campaign was considered at a
meeting here today of the executive
committee. The members said the
question as to whether the league will
support Harding or Cox, or neither,
will be decided definitely.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24
Have an Elephant Stew.

An elephants foot takes longer TO
cook than any other meat. To make
1t tender 1t must be boiled for thirty.
slx hours. ....-..-
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24

Columbia, July 2o.---Request for
vaccine points for smallpox continues
TO come in almost daily at the state
health office. Yesterday an order
ir ior ,ooo points was received from
Sharieston, to which city many points
nave been sent during the past fes
weeks.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24

out more than ali these put together
Is the detiation scheme OF the Fedeesl
reserve Board. Remove that and let
us pay our war debts in the Same
bushels of wheat. pounds OF cotton.
and days labor that was given TO con
tract the debts and we will reform
marketing. build good roads, ana
march on To prosperity we have not
yet dreamed of. This is worth work
ing for, praying for, writing for and
using every ounce of our influence
for.
e. w. pabbs.
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Shamrock Put in
Dry Dock

Sandy Hook. July 21.--The sham
rock is in dry dock today getting her
hui cleaned. The Resolute is at
mooring having her rigging inspected.
The race tomorrow will be over tri-
anglar course. 10 miles to each leg.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-11-04

monthly portions sustain high inter-
est, 200 Short Stories, Exceptional
Articles by exceptional authorities,
special pages for the Family, the. Boys,
the Girls. Strong, mature minds
prize The Companions Editorial Page,
everyone enjoys its humor, and all
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One paper for all the family. The
Companion takes the place and saves
the price of several publications.
Still $3.50 FOR year of So issues, but
this price not guaranteed beyond
January /, next.
New subscribers for 1921 will re-
ceive:
1. The Youths Companion-52 is
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2. All remaining weekly 1920 issues.
8. The Companion Home Calendar
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4. McCall's Magazine for 1921, $150
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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-11-04
IRONTON, MO-, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER H. 1920

cases and fund for the Confederate
Soldiers Home at Higginsville, Mo.
The State Department of Oil Inspec-
ton will be without funds soon, he
said.
Accounts of the county clerks and
assessors will be due within several
weeks, Stephens said, and the state
will be without appropriated funds
with which to pay them. The ac-
counts will be listed and placed before
the Committee on Appropriations OF
the Legislature. They will then be
included in the deficiency appropria.
ton. The accounts of other depart
ments will be treated similarly, Mr.
Stephens said.
"The present deficiency is due te
the failure of the last General Assem-
bly, to appropriate sufficient money
for the work of the institutions ane
departments affected" he said. "The
increased prices and cost of maintain
ing the offices is partly the cause O
the depleted funds. There are more
than $11 900, 900 in the state treasury
but this money is not available fol
use until appropriations are made"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-11-04
Seed Wheat Must Be Labeled.

All seed wheat sold or offered for
sale in Missouri must carry the Seed
Law Label.
The shipping tag or label must show
the kind of wheat, the percentage of
termination and wnen tested, where
grown, purity, and the number of
noxious weed seeds If same contains
any of the legally designated nox-
ions weed seeds.
Persons desiring samples of Mis-
souri, Seed Law labels or tags will
secure same by addressing the Mis-
souri, State Board of Agriculture at
Jefferson City. Tags are not sold,
and any person may have tags print
ed at any printing Office.
Seed wheat sold by farmers must be
tested and labeled the same as if sold
by a seed dealer. However, If the
farmer sells and delivers seed whe at
to purchaser who comes to the farm
and hauls it away the label is not re-
quired. If the grower advertises his
seed wheat or ships itFby common
carrier then he comes under the full
labelling requirements of the law. AL.
SO the grower is held responsible for
any representations he may make as
to variety or quality.
The same rules apply to the selling
of seed oats as are here set forth con-
cerning wheat. The Missouri Seed
Law does not permit farmer to be-
come a local scotsman except that he
come under the full provision of the
Seed Law.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-11-04
The wood hauler has been quit
numerous the past few weeks.
Mayflower Year.

December ri, 1920, will be the three
hundredth anniversary of the landing
of the Pilgrims on the bleak shores OF
Cape Cod. This year has been style
ed, therefore, "Mayfower Year"
Under the heading "a Thought for
Mayfower Year." the goth Century
Quarterly says:
"The New America will be free Of
some faults of the Old America, chief
of which we're slavery and the liquor
traffic; but this Mayfower Year is the
fitting time to bring back the things
in, the Old America that drove out
these faults and made America a
word of honor and hope in all the
world-daily Bible reading in home
and school, and the Sabbath protect
ed against greed, for rest and worship
and altruism."
1t would be difficult to show tha
either slavery or the liquor traffi,
was driven out because of "dailJ
Bible reading in home and school
and the Sabbath protected agains
greed, for rest and worship and altru
ism.''
We are in favor Of daily reading q
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-11-04

the Bible, and we ourselves are prac-
tising it, but the abolition of slavery
was not a distinctively religious
movement, nor was the North more
Fardently religious when slavery was
abolished than was the South.
Indeed, the South is today, asst has
long been, more religious than the
North. Universalism, Unitsrienism,
and higher criticism have their
American strongholds, not in the
South, but in the North. The Sunday
laws of the South, with the single ex-
ception of Louisiana, are and always
have been more rigid and more rigid
ly enforced than those in the North,
and the practice of religious exercises
in the public school is more nearly
universal south of Mason and Dixon's
line than north of it.
The writer was reared in the North,
but subsequently spent more than a
score of years in the South, and
knows whereof he affirms toI';hing
these things.
While prohibition cannot be said to
have originated in the South, that
section finally led in the movement,
not from religious conviction, but be-
cause of the civil necessity of keep
ing intoxicants as far away as possi-
BILE from the large Negro population.
The editor of the Goth Century
Quarterly cannot be ignorant of the
fact that the Puritans of New Eng
land were not opposed to slavery.
They even sold into slavery in the
West Indies men and women of their
own nationality, who chanced to
\ differ from them in religious faith and
practice. Cotton Mather himself,
prominent as clergyman and writer,
a Puritan of the Puritans, advocated
waylaying civilian Penn and his
ungodly crew." making them captives
and selling them into slavery in Bar
bados.
If any Puritan ever discovered
from the Bible that slavery and liquor
drinking were wrong, the fact was not
recorded. 1t was many years after
the death of the last Puritan before
slavery was abolished in Puritan
Massachusetts, and even then the
climate probably had more to do with
it than had religious convictions.
When the abolition of slavery began
to be seriously urged, nowhere out
side of the slave States themselves
was emancipation more bitterly op-
posed than in Boston. The fear was
that it would affect adversely the
trade of the city. DR.. Crafts claims
too mnch for Puritan conviction,
customs, and influence. Liberty.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-11-04
Cobalt Plant Closes.

(Fredericktown Democrat-News.)
Two hundred men were thrown out
of work last night at the plant of the
Missouri Cobalt Co., and it is the ex-
pectation of the company officials
that 200 more will be layed off within
the next two or three weeks.
Notices we're posted yesterday to
the effect that the general unsettled
conditions of the country which re-
f1ected themselves in the high cost of
coal and other articles used by the
company and the low priceSf copper,
makes the shutdown necessary until
such time as conditions get better.
The notices indicate that it is the ex-
pectation of the company that the
plant will be down several months.
The underground work, the concen-
traitor, the smelter and the roasting
plant were closed yesterday releasing
200 men. The teaching plant will run
probably fifteen days longer and the
copper plant and wet house may con-
tinue in operation as long as thirty
days. AS soon as the material on
hand has been used up, all the EN-.
ployees will be out of jobs.
The company expects to retain the
heads of all departments and the fore
men and the office force in order that
when operations are resumed the or
ganization will be intact. The total of
those who will be retained will prob.
ably be between 40 and SO.
Supt. Mateer stated to The Demo-
crat-News yesterday evening that the
shut down wa not to be considered
in any sense as permanent. He ex-
pressed the strongest confidence in
the future of the property and said
that his and his company's faith in it
was 80 strong that they expected to
even go to the heavy expense OF
keeping the organization intact so
that when conditions are better NO
time will be lost in resuming effective
operation.
Those who have observed the quo
tations in the metal markets of the
world have seen considerable de.
crease recently in the price OF cop.
per, one Of the principal products o
the Missouri Cobalt 90. The con
sumption of cobalt has been greatly
reduced by the depression in the
industrial centers, and all these thing
have doubtless caused the manage
ment Of the company to suspen,
Operations. Newspaper reports indi