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Mexico weekly ledger., 1921-07-28

Tn, following c~o.onerative stock
shipments have been made from Mex.
leo recently thru, the Producers crai,
COMPANY:
SHEEP
,dJbarlev Coll;ra x
o B Davis 8
Pau Davis il
H C Collins Is
Whitley johnson 1s
John V;nsianA 81
Fetch Sims 10
TIL rnton Scott n
John Blum RI
Bob Cr1,m TX
B A Brown II
] C Fecht %
] M Morris 9
w E Freeman 70
Albus Bros II
q Maretta 70
Cal Barns "a
X c Kerr Is
HI Kammava, TX
] B Waltz 4 -.#..t,5
G Linn 10
HOES
r Kerr 1e
IT Wilson 10 w
VIZ ID p-aJ1o-o
Mexico weekly ledger., 1921-07-28

his premium light horses in the horse
department of the Missouri Centen-
NAL Exposition and State Fair, which
will be held at Sedalia, August 8 to
20. Field and Bennett also of Mexico
will exhibit. They have entered five
head Of light horses. They will leave
Mexico about August 6 to attend the
grand opening day Monday, August
8, the Exposition opens with all ex-
hibits, automobile races, Ruth Law
airplane exhibitions, and the initial
presentation of the Pageant Of Mis-
souri,, the gorgeous historical produc-
ton which depicts 100 years of Mis-
sourRs History.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1921-07-28

Plans for the tour Of Galloway
county farmers to the Colleeg of Ag-
Iiculture in Columbia August 8 are
well under way and only minor de-
tails r yet to be arranged, County
Agent C. E. Neff, who is in charge of
the tour, said Thursday. Prospects are
that a large number of farmers and
their families will make the trip, and
a good deal of enthusiasm over the
proposed visit is being shown in the
various sections of the county.-Ful-
ton Gazette.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1921-07-28

Thomas Bass, well known exhibitor
and breeder e. light horses, IF Mexico,
Ito, racently entered twelve head of
Mexico weekly ledger., 1921-07-28

M D. Porter, well known swine man
and BREEDER of Poland Chinas Of Van
dafia, Mo, win exhibit six head Of his
premium swine at the Missouri Cen
tennial Exposition and State Fair,
which will be hsld at Sedalia, August
8 to 20. Mr.. Porter is an old exhibitor
at the State Fair, and is well known
down there. He expects to run into
some keen competition this year, how
ever, because the premiums have been
doubled in evry department and many
new exhibitors are entering their prize
Mexico weekly ledger., 1921-07-28

Fred Norris, who farms six miles
northeast of Mexico, had 125 acres
of wheat that averaged 26 bu. and
graded No. 2. This, is one of the best
yields in the county.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1921-07-28
win Remodel Centralia Hotel.

Arrangements have been made for
remodeling the Globe Hotel, and work
will be started within the next twenty
days or as o as workmen can be
secured.
The manager states that he has just
made a new lease for the Globe build
ing and will continue 10 run that pop
ular hosiery for years to come
Oentralia Preside Guard.
V. r. Craghead of Auxvasse tran
sacted business IN town Friday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1921-07-28

Howard Bailey of the Maxwell
Crouch Company of st. Louis was in
Galloway Tuesday and Wednesday
buying a load of mules for his COM
pany. He found two the first day and
thirteen the second day which he
closed the deals for. He rounded out
his load Thursday morning early and
shipped the load from McCredie that
day. eli got six head from Forrest
Link of New Bloomfield neighborhood
Wednesday an dtook the others in
lots of n and two as he found
them.-Fulton Sun.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1921-07-28

JEFFERSON CITY, July 23.-At
the end of a long debate in the senate
the bill placing the state marketing
bureau under the direction of the
state board of agriculture passed by
a vote of "a to d. Practically the
same bill was a part Of the measure
passed at the regular session estab-
fishing the state department of ag-
riculture. The latter law has been
suspended by referendum petitions.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1921-07-28

Th2 following cooperative stock
shipments have been made from Mex
leo recently thru the Producers Grain
COMPANY;
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-08-20

hope, however, that they will not
want to, and that the income from
it by that time will be SO great
that none Of them will feel the
need of taking a slice out Of the
principal.
The most curious thing about
this plan is the fact that the tes-
tator is jumping over the heads OF
his living heirs and leaving ms
wealth to reirs yet unborn. &C
cording to any normal point OF
view, that amounts almost to leaV-
ing it to total strangers. He could
know nothing Of those heirs, ana
they will necessarily be only in
small part his own blood. A child
OF the first generation is half his
of the second one-fourth his, and
Of the third generation, which Is to
inherit his fortune, only one
eighth his. ut is wise father
that knows his own son. he
could have no possible way OF
knowing what sort of people those
heirs will be, and how they will use
his money. Nothing could have &C
tuated him but an odd pride in the
idea of creating a great family es-
tate.
The estate may grow big, in the
rs wears or more during which IL
is to be held in trust. Estimates
run to s1O0,OO0.GO0 and more.
That. however, is extremely uncer-
tain. Nobody knows what eco
nomic changes may come, nor how
nropertv may be taxed hereafter.
Also-and this is possibly a thlng
tnaC the lGSIdtOI 4AeSo AiSS AN~'
sidereo-there are likely to be so
many heirs by that time that there
will be no more for them apiece
than there would be for the pres
ent generation.
There are seven grandchildren
now. and are likely to be severai
more. How many grandchildren
will those grandchildren have?
Enough, no doubt, to make snort
work of whatever political ana
business evolution and tax-collec-
tors and trustees and lawyers have
left of that fortune. Judge Ne
vile, in trying to control the future
with a dead hand, has attempted
the unwise and the impossible.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-08-20
Columbia Police
Officer Shot
Posse and Bloodhounds Are on
Murderer's Trail

Columbia. Aug. 11.-At two
thirty This afternoon posse Of
more than Il hundred men and Of
iic"rs :!1ve surrounded a swamp
near Blythcwood, in the upper part
of kichland county, where a negro
is being sought for the killing here
Early this morning Of II. Frank
Brown. member Of the Columbia
Police force Bloodhounds are on
the ncGro's trail in the swamp,
with men on all sides of it await
ing his exit. He will likely be cap
tuued this afternoon. The horse
on which he fled from Columbia
and which he stole in one of the
city's suburbs has been found. on
the edge OF the swamp. and his cap,
caught in an overhanging vine, has
also been found>
The negro was found loafing in a
suburb early this morning, and
when the officer asked the negro
what he was doing he was immed-
lately shot down
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-08-20
COST OF RHINE TROOPS.

A well known editorial writer,
calling: attention to the govern
ment's need Of economy to make
both ends meet, asks:
Gould any economy be simpler,
easier, more rational. than bring
ing American troops back from
Europe?
"What good are they doing?
Germany and France both would
like to have them stay, perhaps
hut that doesn't interest the Amer
lean taxpayer. He would like TO
have them come home and stop
spending his money"
This particular criticism seems to
be good example of chronic
Rhinitis. There may be souno
reasons, political or sentimental
fo. bringing those troops home, but
economy is hardly one of them.
There are now only q few thou
sand American soldiers on the
Rhine. 1t was stated on the f1oor
of the senate the other DAY that
thew are costing about $1,OOO,ooo
p month. A recent war department
statement put it at s15.00o.oOo a
year That is not much. in itself.
But the important point is that the
limited States doesn't pay itDGer-
many does.
/. Thus the maintenance OF those
troops on the Rhine costs the Unit
ed States nothing, whereas II they
were brought home the United
States would have to support them.
1t may be objected that Germany
has not paid our government any
thing yet for such maintenance.
But there needn't be any difhcuity
ahout that. All the government
has to do is to take it out OF the
several hundred millions of Ger
man property seized here during
the war. which is still held perd-
ing settlement.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-08-20
TAX REDUCTIONS.

Any federal tax reduction, or
any decision against n
through a tax increase, is sure to
he greeted with cheers. Several
things in the program announced
recently by the house ways and
means committee meet with gener-
al approval.
It is good news that postage is
not to be raised, that a new tax IS
not to be imposed on automobiles
that the luxury tax" on clothing
and certain other things is to be re-
neaIed. that the income exemptions
of heads of families are to be rais-
ed to s40O for each dependent.
Higher postage would have been
no great burden to the average CIT
izen. but it would have been an
moving to everybody and a real
hardship to many business con-
Germs that win pay quite enough
>edaral taxes without it. Auto
mobi1es are already taxed three
t,mes-once by the government IN
.he manufacturers hands. once az
,.A-cona, nroperty, on the local tax
duplicate, and once more IN the
eaeta license fee. In every case the
aroer nays. Most of the so-called
,,,xuries taxed by the present law
sre not luxuries at all, but neces-
saries.
The proposed income exemption
raise is probably the most com
-nendable of all these proposals. II
there is to De any exemption OF de-
1o,dents-and every sound econ
onoist believes in the princlple-a
n,oro axen,ntion of $500 apiece is
aheurd The average expense Oh
bringing up a child or maintaining
an adult dependent is certainty
more than 5000 a year, in income
tax-naying families. But it should
ha observed that the real allow
once ,s not even $500, but only
what the tax would have been on
that sum. The normal income tax
rate is per cent, so that the actual
hanetit or rebate allowed for each
dependent at present is IS { Jear-
lump to SIC year helps a ut
f1o
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-08-20
German Reparation
Payments
Berlin Bank Building Up
Credit in New York

NeW iCrii. August 10-The Ger
i::an ReichSbank. known under the
liohcnZ0llern regime as the Imper-
ial Bank Of Germany, has begun to
build up fresh credits here in anti
cipatioil Of further reparations pay
nntnts due England and France.
Some 200 cases Of bar silver val
ued at about $3.50, ,000 have been re-
ceived here by the Equitable Trust
Company, representing the German
government 1t is thought that full
ly quarter of the August repaE-
atoms settlement. which may ag-
gregate $20 600 900, Will be paid in
silver metal, of which Germany is
sad to havt. large supplies.
Reports from abroad state that
German brokers find it more adj
vanta@eous in the. present state Of
exchange to ship silver to this coun-
try than to hypothecate the metal
at home against foreign credits.
Some of the gold which Ger
many is to pay through this mar
llct this month is likely to take the
form of bullion melted down from
French and Russian coin. Germany
already has paid to France much Of
the gold which she eXacted from
that country as part Of her lndem-
nity after the Franco-Prussian war
and which for many years was part
Of the Imperial governments war
chest
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-08-20
Must the Law Hide QUE

(Spartanburg Herald, Aug. ~
Must the law hide out? Does
lawlessness hold the whip handle? :?
Must officers of the law IN the dis
charge Of their sworn duty TO so
ciety spend days cvading mobs?
These are questions that may
we'll arise from the story running
in the newspapers now for days
concerning the effort OF the shcr-
ifs Of Richland and Lexington to
land accused murdercrS in the
state penitentiary 1T is not an
unusual thing for a laWbreakcr 10
be laying out as they say along
the border Of North Carolina. but
when the pictuye changes and the
officers of the law find it necessary
to hide out from those who would
disregard the law, We have come
upon a time when thoughtful peo-
pie may we'll turn the matter over
in their minds.
a murderous crime is responsible
for ;his seeming popular indisna-
ton, and now crime a,yakclis to
avcnge crime, which is contrary
to the laws that must govern or
ga.niZed society. South Carolina
must go back to law and order
Averaging more than a murder a
day for recent months. the time
has come to call q halt and the
thoughtful people of this state
should realize the menace Of this;
record. We have come upon
strange days when the law must
lay out" for fear of violence.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-08-20
MOB LAW.

T2e more law respecting
citizen considers the unrestrained
activities of the mob or mobs that
have been running loose in and
around Columbia and between that
city and Augusta and Savannah
during the past week or ten days
the more he marvels al the supine,
do-nothing policy of the State and
County officers who are under con-
tract with the public to enforce
the law and prevent breaches Of
the peace. These officers. especial
ly the Governor and the Sheriffs of
sire several counties, are specifical-
n REQUIRED, and L2ve taken a sol
enn oath, to uphold the peace and
dignity Of the State and to appre-
hena criminals and law breakers
of all degrees. Neither the Govern
or of South Carolina nor the Sher-
ifs of the several counties in which
the robs have been ranpaging.
have made the proper effort to dis
perse the mobs or to apprehend the
Individuals composing the mobs.
faere is something radically wrong
with public sentiment and with the
sworn officers of the law when such
lawless manifestations are permit
ted to pass unchallenged. The spec
tacle of masked mobs parad'ng me
highways, holding up and search-
ing trains with the avowed purpose
of Selling and killing prisoners
lawf,1l1y in the custody of sworn
at;eers of the law. is disgraceful
,,a intolerable. If sheriff has no
better conception Of his duty ana
Ia. responsibility that he assumed
u,3,en he subscrihed 70 his oath Oh
n4,co thar, 70 think that ne has ols-
charged his duty when he spenos
b;a energies dods.rg mobs ana
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-08-20
Has Government Abdicated?
fCo1,,r,oh hio State Anp 1S

That mob or mObS have been
going about this state and into
Georgia with intent to kill the
slayers Of young BraZell seems TO
be matter Of common knowledge.
Men have boarded trains and
sought prisoners sometimes when a
sheriff has been travelling on the
train and everybody apparently ad-
mits that this is true The rumors
must be true, IN whole or In part.
1t is nonsense to dispute them.
Why have not members Of these
mobs been arrested?
Why are they allowed to make
the state Of South Carolina ridi-
culous?
Why are they permitted to incite
other mobs by their example?
Whose duty and whose business
is it to arrest these conspirat ors
who, whether they know it or not,
are making war against the gov
ernment of South Carolina:
Some one somewhere must know
some members of these mobs or
must have reason to suspect who
they ar-. Surely evidence upon
which to make out . prima facie
case against them would be avail
able.
Perhaps the sheriff of Lexington
has not the faintest notion who
they are Perhaps the sheriff OF
RicEland can not fix their iden-
tity obviously. ,r they do know
who the conspir:itors are or have
reasonable grounds to suspect who
they are, the duty is upon them,
upon these sheriifs, to act. If the
sherifls know nothing and the dep
utics know nothing and the police
men know nothing, perhaps there
are citizens who can tell them
sometling. Are the members OF
lnobs. dozens and hundreds OF men
| clothed with coats Of darkness
like that OF lack The Giant Kill
| er." that enable them to board
| trains and travel the public roads
! in nlotorcarS and remain invisible
The sheriff has the undoubtrd le'
gal right to arrest any !nan trNlnt
to commit crime. To rescue
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-08-20
MOB RULE IN
SOUTH CAROLINA

criminal is to commit crime. TO
lynch a criminal is 4 felony. When
men eather IN company 10
lynch they are In conspiracy TO
commit felony -Four on FIVE days
last week and this week men made
sport Of South Carolina. Of its GOV
eminent, its sheriff. It's jailers. its
solicitors, its judges and above All,
it's juries.
What was done to stop it?
There was racing and chasing
from city to city and from town
to town, by motorcar and steam
train. in the night time and in the
day time, in Georgia and in South
Carolina, and the officers OF the law
and their prisoners We're the chas-
ed.
viii it be advisabi "a form COM
mittees of viliSantes to protect
sheriffs and other law officers from
mobs?
Meanwhile the sheriifs and their
deputies should have advice and
Carolina should confer with them
and let them understand that when
they wish to arrest members Of 4
mob they may have 80 or LOCO
deputies to assist
The sherlns and police officers
are not afraid. The rnob:5 ll:ty" not
intimidated them. Seemingly the
officers have not known exactly.
what to do. They have been on
the defensive because no one told
them what to do. and how to deal
with a mob when 1t is not actually
violent, presents Gificulties. Hnt
the government in South Carolina
has been made a laughing stock
in the last seven days.
The two murdcrers can be
brought from Charleston to Colum-
bia in open day and without con-
cealment. Perhaps that should be
done. If a large number Of the
people of South Carolina wish to
form mobs aud plunge the conl-
monwealth into civil war on ac-
count of'this tragedy, Il dtmGn:tr;t-
ton of it would perhap:; be worth
while
1t were better tnat South Ca.c-
lima meet and fight the mob ANA be
defeated by it than run away from
it.
It were better that a sovereign
state be dead than that it be alb
Surd
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-08-20
UNBORN HEIRS.

A curious will is that Of Judge
E. Neville OF Omaha. he
has left property worth s2,OO0,oo0
or more, in real estate ana sooo
securities, providing that the whole
property shall be kept intact un'ii
offer the death Of all living heirs.
He has three children and seven
grandchildren. His great-grand-
b;ldren are to divide up the estate
~ fhey want to. He expresses a
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-08-20
HOME DEMONSTRA-
TfON DEP PARTMENT
Better Bread Contest.

The Better Bread Contest Will be
held in the office Of the home dem
onStration agent on "Wednesday
morning. Most : the girls have
been visited dlr:rA the past week
and urged to get busy Miss Snider,
Food Specialist OF Winthrop Col
leSt viii be on hand to help judge.
Some local women viii be present.
Every girl is urged to be here and
try for the prizes which will be Civ
en-. The county winner Of first
place Will be sent 10 district meet
ing for that contest in September.
We hope to finish up this work by
noon of Wednesday.
What OF the Bread You Bake?
By Mrs. VI. S. Dodds. Mississippi
Tune: Rug a Jig Jig.
AS | went stroling down the street
| passed "a place where people eat
[ went inside and took a seat
And found the bread to be bad.
CHORUS:
What can you say Of the bread
You make, the bread you make
The bread you iraI;e?
What can you say Of the bread you
make?
Is it light and wholesome or bad?
What of the family in your own
home?
When they ask for bread do you
give them a stone?
Is it flat and sour and soggy and
bad,
or light, and wholesome and sweet?
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-08-20

are at their best when the plant IS
IN bloom and should be collected
at this time. Leaves Of blennlals
are most valuable during the second
wear of their growth. In drying,
snread out. thinly on clean floor
and stir occasionally until they are
thoroughly dry. Remove all stems
from leaves and remember that the
leaves which are worth most are
those which retain their natural
green color. Dampness will turn
leaves black, SO be careful not to
let them get wet.
Directions for Collecting Barks.
Barks maybe gathered either in
the fall or spring. All rough barks
should be rossed before peeling-
that is, the rough outer bark must
be scraped or shaved off, and the
inner bark then peeled. Barks
may be dried in the sunlight, ex-
cept green wild cherry.
Poultry Cuiiing.
Just at this time last year we
were having a series Of poultry
culling demonstrations. A very
large number of the club women
attended these demonstrations
ard are able to do tbs work for
themselves Let me remind you
that now is the time to begin this
work again. We do not want to hold
on to that hen that has already
stopped work for the winter. Your
agent is in position to ship these
culls now at a much better price
than can be cotton locally and will
be very glad to do so. Go over
your flock and take out the poor
layers. The best layer has a happy
disposition, good health, stirs early
and late, short head, broad and
deep body giving much abdominal
space far foods, thin flexible bones,
not too fat, and a late molter. Be-
gin now and keep up the cuillng
for the next few months If you
would have the most paying flock
on your farm.
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sniriting prisoners frem one place
+o another to avoid tie personal
humiliation of surrendering his
charges or taking the pers. nal risk
of resisting the mob, he il not fit
|l+o hold the Office. When sheriff
OTIS tight in railroad train and
watches a mob of masked meo
boldly searching for prisoners that
he is supposed to have in his Gus
tody and blantantly proclaimlng
that they propose to forcibly take
the said prisoners from the sheriff.
wherever and whenever found, and
kill them, it is time for that sheriff
to hunt another job. II he cannot
see that it is his duty to make an
effort to arrest the members of the
mob for conspiracy to commit a
murder he is not the man for the
Office.
And the Governor: When the
law Of the. State is brazenly violat-
ed and mobs traverse the State day
after day and night after night.
and even invade neighboring
State for the purpose of committing
murder, it is tilne-high time-for
him to remember that his oath OF
Office requires him to use the pow
er of his Office to preserve peace,
prevent crime and make the au-
thority of the State respected. The
proceedings that have disgraced
the State Of South Carolina during
the past week are inexcusable. The
first outbreak may have been con-
doned. but when the mob was per-
uitted to go unmolested day after
day by no stretch of the imagina-
ton is one able to frame an ex-
cuse that would be accepted by a
rational man. The mob seemed to
have the officials Of the State and
counties intimidated. and all they
could think of doing was to dodge
around from place to place and let
the mob weaa Itself out.
If the Governor Of South Caro-
lima and the Sheriffs of the counties
in which the mobs have operated
really want to save their faces, they
can even at this late day set the
machinery of the law in motion to
apprehend and bring to trial In
the courts some of the known mem
bers of the mobs. It is stated on
reasonably good authority that
quite a number of those in the
mobs are known to people in CO.
lOIn Ello N4AO ~AAOO
members made no secret Of their
identity and only masked them
selves when searching trains. and a
little zeal and backbone in the per
formance Of duty would bring re-
suits. But judging from the supine
Indifference of the officials while
the mob was on the rampage, 1t is
too much to expect that anything
at all will be done.
The mob spirit seems to be the
dominant force in some sections OF
the State and the officials who
should enforce the law and sup
press mob rule appear to be buf-
faloed