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-- _ WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER ll. 1901. " E'ireredar tke fast Omce ai Sumter. S 0.. 'm Second Class Milter NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Levi Bros-In New Quarters. D. J. Chandler-Boy's School Suits. Estates of Mrs. Frances L. Dinkins and Miss Willianietta Dinkins-Final Discharge. PERSONAL. Mr. R. O. Purdv is back from Sa * luda. Mr. W. Ed Dick spent Saturday in town. Mr. Leon Dove, of Kingstree, is in the city. Dr. Plumer Alford, of Dillon, is . in the city. Miss Lillie Hogan is visiting in Greeley vi Ile. Mr. John K. Crosswell has returned from New York. Miss Louisa Moses has returned from Saluda, X. C. Mr. P. G. Bowman, of Columbia, spent Friday in town. Mr. Shepard Nash is spending some? time at Glenn Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Lyons have re? turned from Baltimore, r Mr. D. J. Bradham, of Manning, was in the city Friday. Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Brown have returned from Beaufort. Senator Louis Appelt, of Manning, ?was in the city Thursday. Mr. W. G. Moses has gone to Orangeburg to buy cotton. Mr. R. A. Burgess is able to be ont after his recent severe illness. Sheriff Scarborough, wife and chil? dren are visiting in Bishopville. Mr. J. H. Chandler returned last Thursday morning from New York. Misses Marie and Mattie Wardlaw are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Hood. Messrs. L. L. Baker and TV. S. James of Bishopville, were in the city today. Mr. Horn of the Horn-Bass Co. has been in New York on business for several days. Miss Laura Mood, who has spent the summer on the Maine coast, has re? turned home. Messrs. Robt. M. Warren and Lew Rice Hoyt have gone to Buffalo for a couple of weeks. Mrs. A. C. Phelps has returned from Sullivan's Island where she spent the summer. Mr. Julius A. Schwerin had a fall from a bicycle Friday and a bone .of one wrist was broken. Mrs. M. P. Cordes returned from Charleston on Saturday after spending a month with relatives. Mr. Altamont Moses is in Colum- ! bia attending a meeting of a Legisla? tive committee last week. Mr. Edward Haynsworth and Miss Fannie Havnsworth returned from Saluda, N.C., Thursday. Mrs. D. M. Campbell, who has been spending several weeks at Ridgeway and Columbia, has returned home. Miss Annie Kennedy, who has been ?visiting relatives in Fairfield county for several weeks, has returned home. Miss Edith Warren who has been visiting in the city for several weeks, has returned to her home at Tampa, Fia. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Caines, of Bishopville, passed through the city Thursday on their way home from Buf? falo. Miss Annida D. Moses arrived from New York on Sunday the 1st inst, on a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Moses. County Superintendent of Education Baskin has been absent from his office for several days owing to the illness of his brother. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. S. McKagen are visiting relatives in this city. Mr. McKagen is now in the employ of the S. A. L. at Glenwood, Ga. Dr. A. C. Baskin, of Tennessee, passed through the city last Saturday on his way to Bishopville to see his brother, Mr. Ed. Baskin, who is quite sick. Rev. J. A. Clifton went to Spring? field, Orangeburg County, where he conduct the dedication services of the new Methodist Church at that place last Sunday. Dr. and Mrs. E. S. Booth went to Asheville, N. C., last Thursday. Dr. Booth stood the trip well, and is en .eouraged to expect much benefit from the climate and treatment there. Mr. J. W. Bronson, who has been in the employ of the Merritt Air JBrake Co., of Brooklyn, N. Y., has accepted the position of bookkeeper with Harby & Co., at their stable. The many friends in our city of Mr. -Chas. L. Shore, are delighted to hear that he has been promoted by the in? surance company he has been working for in Indianapolis, Ind., since he left ?Sumter, to district management at a salary of five thousand dollars a year. Mr. Jos. W. Branson, of Concord, was in the city Friday. He says that he has at home eight barrels of fine flour of his make, and has beside about 13 bushels of wheat still on hand. Mr. Bronson has always farm? ed on the live-at-home policy, and has always made his own meat and this is the first year that he ha3 ever bought corn-and only ten bushels at that. Mr. W. A. James, of Bishopville, who w-as in the city Monday paid this office a visit and inspected our type setting macthine while in operation. Mrs. Ella Tuomey after an protract? ed stay in the North returned home yesterday. Mrs. E. A. Cuttino and Miss Julia Cuttino have returned from the moun? tains. Ajcrowd of negro women were before the Mayor last Thursday charged1 with disorderly conduct and maintaining a nuisance." Three were found guilty and were sentenced to pay fines of 65, $15, and 625 respectively or failing to pay the fines to serve 10, 25 and 30 days in the guard house. DEATHS. i Miss Lucy McLeod, daugher of che j late Capt. Wm. J. McLeod, of Lynch . burp;, died at 1.45 Thursday morning, ' Sept. 5th at the home of her brother, I Kev. D. M. McLeod, at Blacksburg, 1 S. C. She had been sick a long time. The burial was held at Lynchburg at ll o'clock on the 6th. Mr. James Dargan died unexpected? ly at 7 o'clock last Friday morning at the home of his brother-in-law, Mr. Benj. Bradford, aged 27 years. The funeral was held at 10 o'clock Saturday morning from Mr. Bradford's resi? dence on Republican Street. Mrs. Mary J. Scarborough died yes? terday morning at the home of Dr. D. R. McCallum after a long and painful illness. The funeral services were held from the house at ten o'clock this morning. RELIGIOUS NOTES. The quarterly conference will be held in the Magnolia Street Church to? night by Rev. J. W. Kilgo, Pre? siding Elder. -: The weekly prayer meeting will be held in the First Methodist Church at 8 o'clock tonight, instead of in the afternoon. The Savings Bank will open for business about the 15th instant. City Council declined to rent the Opera House for a boxing match be? tween colored pugilists. Quite a crowd of school girls passed through last Thursday on their way to college in up country. The summer visitors to the moun? tains are returning home in crowds and the down trains are filled every day. Fall advertisements are now in order. The merchants that advertise persistently and judiciously get the cream of the trade. The merchants have big stocks on hand and are ready for the fall trade, but a big stock does not insure a big trade-advertising is the surest means of drawing trade. One bale of new cotton was sold on this market in August, last August? ine receipts of new cotton exceeded a thousand bales. Farmers say that cotton has deterio? rated in condition a great deal within the past two weeks and that the esti? mates made August 15th are a long way above the mark., Attention is directed to the new ad? vertisement of D. J. Chandler, the Clothier. He has a large stock of new and seasonable goods a'nd the prices are, as usual, just right. The Lee County line shaves the eight mile limit from Sumter very narrowly at several points. The people in the Bossard and Oswego neighborhoods will be from twelve to fifteen miles from Bishopville against nine to eleven miles from Sumter. Levi Bro's have an advertisement in today's paper that will be interesting reading for everybody and should not be skipped. It is business news of the best kind and may be the means of saving money for those who read it. It is now thought that Cashier Lechner, of Timmonsville, took a ship for Germany from Savannah where he was last known to have been before his disappearance. The scenery in the Opera House is being overhauled and repaired as thor? oughly as possible. A new outfit of scenery and a new drop certain are badly needed and will have to be pur? chased soon. Sumter has been the best cotton market in central South Carolina for three years past and this record will be maintained this season. The buy? ers in the smaller towns within fifty miles of Sumter lear the competition of Sumter buyers more than those in any other market. The Second Regiment Band gave an enjoyable concert on the Graded School Square last Wednesday night. A large crowd was present showing that the evening concerts during the fall months will be as popular as the after? noon concerts were during the summer. The three negro car-breakers cap? tured in a box car at the depot a few nights ago have been taken to Colum? bia and committed to jail, the car breaking having occurred in Richland county. Services will be held in the Bart? let te Street Baptist Church every af? ternoon and night this week, begin? ning this afternoon at 5 o'clock. Rev. J. O. Gough, of Manning, will con? duct the meetings assisted by the pas? tor, Rev. F. M. Satterwhite. The police succeeded on Saturday afternoon in recovering the watch stolen from Mr. C. T. Mason's resi? dence. The negro now in jail for the burglary told a fellow prisoner where he had hidden the watch on a sill under a negro house on Harvin Street and he informed the police where to look for it. When a search was made the watch was found in the place stated. The Sumter School of Music will be open on Sept. 30th for the admission of pupils. The regular school work will begin October 1st. Students de? siring special hours should apply ear? ly. The examination of pupils for admission to the department of Public Performance will occur October 16th. Sept 9 & 15. The Second Regiment Band has an engagement to give a concert in the Opera House in Florence, Monday evening, September 23d. The people of Florence have a treat awaiting them and they will be not only pleased with the concert but surprised that an organization of amateurs can give so excellent a programme. There is but one band in the State superior to the Second Regiment Band and that is the Artillery Band of Sullivan's Island, composed of professional musicians who practice daily. The Atlantic CoastjLine is now sell? ing round trip tickets to Buffalo for ??0.70. Route via Washington, Balti? more, Harrisburg and Emporium Junction or Canandaigau-via Wash? ington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Road. Tickets sold daily ? j Sept. 6th to Oct. 2(;th inclusive with j i final limit twenty days from date of sale, except from Emporia and Peters? burg final limit will be fifteen days i ? from date <>f sale. To he good going j and returning same route, with final ! transit limit of five days in each di rec- j tion, requiring validation hy Joint j Agent at Buffalo. This ticket will permit of stop off within transit limn* j "DOGTOR" BECKER K?S SKIPPED. Deserted Wife and Child and Leaves Numerous Creditors in the Lurch. "Dr." Arthur Becker. M. D.. D. O., otherwise known hereabouts as the Becker Optical Co., has deserted his wife and child, jumped his debts and [ skipped the country. His wife is distracted with grief and mortification, his creditors are mourn? ing and those who are wearing Becker eye glasses are looking cross-eyed. Dr. Becker, according to the state? ments made to various parties when he arrived in this city a few months ago, is a native of Germany and a graduate of two medical colleges in Berlin. He stated also that he had lived in Chicago for many years where he practiced his profession successfully until his health failed and he had to come South to seek a milder climate. He came first to Winnsboro, S. C., where he established himself. as an optician and lens grinder and resided there for six months or longer. He then moved to Manning, but kept a branch office in Winnsboro. After re? maining in Manning several months he came to this city early this spring and opened an office on Main street. He advertised himself as the only lens grinder and manufacturing optician in the South outside of Atlanta. He claimed to be doing a fine business and spoke of opening other branch offices in addition to those in Winns boro and Manning. Recently he has been absent from the city quite fre? quently, ostensibly visiting his branch offices. His last absence being pro? longed caused no comment until his landlord became uneasy and took measures to collect the past due rent which the plausible optician had put off paying from time to time. When Mrs. Becker was called on this morn? ing by the agent of the landlord she had just received a letter from her husband stating in the most cold? blooded and brutal manner that he had left her and never expected to see her ><?ain, that she need make no effort to follow him or attempt to find him as before she received the letter he would be in New York and out of reach. The deserted wife is almost crazed with grief, as she has been left among strangers without money or friends to call upon in her distress. She says that she has telegraphed to a sister in Florida who will arrive to? morrow, and she will then take her baby and return to her mother. She also declares it to be her intention to procure a divorce from Becker at the first possible moment. Becker, it now appears in the light of today's revelations, is an all round rascal and swindler. The . fur? niture in his office was never paid for, but the Craig Furniture Co., from whom it was purchased, held a niort j gage on it and has taken possession of it I and thus loses little except the damage I the furniture has sustained while in ! use. But the list of mourners is nu? merous already, and when others learn j of the optician's flight the list will I probably grow, for Becker not only : bought goods on credit, boarded on credit, rented his office on credit, got credit for advertising in several news? papers, but borrowed small sums of money from chance acquaintances. Hence these weeps. Becker's career in Sumter is but another illustration of the strange fact that it is easy for a stranger to get credit anywhere. The plight of the deserted wife and baby is the saddest feature of the whole affair and she will have not only the sympathy of the people of Sumter, but the kindest treatment of those with whom she has been thrown in contact since she has resided in this city. Why not solve the dispensary problem and^please everybody by mov? ing the dispensary to upper Main Street? One dispensary is enough for Sumter, but if the Jocation is not satisfactory the best thing to do is i to put it where it will please the most people. If moving it to upper Main street will increase the taxable value of the property thereabouts fifty per cent, everybody will favor moving it j up two blocks. That will be an easy j way to increase the value of property and swell the city's income, for the property owners will surely add fifty per cent to their return if their prop? erty is so greatly enhanced in value. THE CITADEL SCHOLARSHIP. Marion Scott Wins, Charles Hurst Al? ternate. The result of the Citadel examina? tion was announced Wednesday after? noon by Superintendent of Education Baskin. The scholarship was won by Marion Scott, a son of Mr. W. H. Scott, of this city. Charles Hurst, Jr., a son of Mr. C. M. Hurst, Jr., stood second and is therefore the al? ternate. The papers of the four applicants were examined and graded by a com? mittee consisting of Prof. Clarence W. Owens, Rev. W. A. Kelly and Mr. H. G. Osteen. Each member of the committee examined and graded the papers separately and reported the re? sult to Supt. Baskin and the award of the scholarship was made to the ap? plicant given the highest percentage by the committee. Hot Dinner Court Week. The ladies of the First Baptist Church of this city will serve hot dinner on the first Monday of next court week. Place of dinner will be announced later. Opening Exercises. The formal opening of Sumter Military Academy and Female Semi? nary, will bi- held in thc Opera House Monday evening, Sent. 10. at S o'clock. Mayor Stuckey will preside. Public invited, admission free. M usic. Introductory Address. A (id ress Gen. E. W. Moise. Music. Address Cien. J. W. Flovd. Music. Welcome County Supt. Baskin. Weclome City Supt. Edmunds. Welcome ('itv Churches. Music. Closing remarks- C. -I. Owens, President. Music, Levi Bros, We wish to return thanks to our many friends for the liberal patronage given us in former years, and to inform them that in our New Quarters North of the Court House We are better equipped to serve them than ever before. A cordial invitation is extended to our former customers and the public generally to visit our new store and inspect the large and carefully selected stock of General Merchandise we are now showing. Dress Goods and Trim tilings, AND A GENERAL LINE OF DRY GOODS. Notions, Clothing, Hats, Gents Furnishing Goods, Shoes, Etc. These stocks are new and complete in all lines and we are offering goods At Prices That Will Appeal to the Careful and Discriminating Buyer Who wishes to obtain the best values for his money A full stock of Standard, Staple and Fancy Groceries, Can Goods, Etc The stock is kept fresh and new by frequent replenishing. We pay the Highest Price for Cotton. Levi Bros. Main Street, North of the Court House. Sumter, S. C. Sep ll-3m Estates of lbs. Frances L, Din kins and Miss Williametta Din kins, Deceased. I WILL apply to the Judge of Probate of Sumter County on October 12th, 1901, for a Final Discharge as Administrator of aforesaid Estates. ROBT. B. DINKIES, Sept ll-ii Administrator. Estate of L. M. Orosswell, Dec'd. ALL persons haring claims against the aforesaid Estate will present same duly attested, and all persons indebted in any. way to said Estate will make immedi? ate payment to Mas. JANE BAXTER CR0SSWELL, Sept 4- 3t Qualified Executrix. CONVERSE COLLEGE An Endowed College for Women. Buildings and property ?250.000.00. Thirty College and University trained teachers. 427 students from twenty states. ?Standard of scholarship equal to the best colleges for men. A. B. and A. M. courses. Modern buildings-Fine appointments in Library, Labratories, Gymnasium, So? ciety Halls. Conservatory of Music. Campus 55 acres. Influences religious and refining. Limited number of scholarships. Next Session to begin Sept. 25th, 190!. Write for catalegue to BENJAMIN WILSON, President, Aug 21-4t Spartanburg, S. C. DAVIDSON COLLEGE DAVIDSON, N. 0. For two thirds of a century David? son bas been noted among Southern colleges for the thoroughness of its training, the ability of ils Faculty, and the atmosphere of morality and honor on its campus. It invites the attention of every parent who wishes the body, the intellect, and the char? acter of his son trained together. For farther part?calars, Catalogne, etc., address HENRY LOUIS SMITH, June 26 President. 1851._1901. Furman University. Greenville, S. C. A. P. Montague, P. H. D., L. L D., President. Two courses are offered leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts (B. A.) and Master of Arts (M. A. ) Library and Reading Room. Physical and Chemical Laboratories, Judson, Alumni Hall, containing Auditorium, Society Halls and Lecture Room, just completed and furnished at a cost of twenty thousand dollars. Dormitories on campus. New Forty Room Dormitory ready by September L Expenses re? duced to a minimum by the Mess sys? tem. Next session begins September 25. Catalogue and circulars of informa? tion on request. Address DR. A. P. MONTAGUE, Greenville, S. C. For rooms apply to PROF. H. T. COOK, Greenville, S. C. July 31 I have on hand a lot of Home-made Vinegar of very fine quality. The flavor is del? icate, wh?e the strength is equal to any to be had. Will be sold at my residence for 40 cents per gallon. m. G. OSTEEL BOYS' SCHOOL SUITS. Our selection of Boys' School Suits is so large that it is not only easy to make a selection, but they are easy to pay for as well, We have them just as good as you want, and as cheap as it pays to buy them. Lively boys and shoddy clothes make a poor combination-perhaps you've found it out. Boys' Knee Pant Suits $1.00 up. 150 suits ages 4 to 16 at $2 50. The best suit we ever offered at the price. Every suit extra well made. Boys' knee pants 25cts to $1 50. Un? usual values in 50cts pants.