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s WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1902. Efiiere.dat ?he lJostOffice at Sumter.S as Second Glass Mitter. MEW ADVERTISEMENTS. -G'BoimeU & Co.?Corsets. J. Ryttenberg & Sons?Shirt Waists. Schwartz Bros.?Great Alteration Sale. PERSONAL. Mr. R. M. Jenkins, of St. Charles, is in the city. *Mr. Thos, G. McLeod, of Lynch burg, spent the day in town. Capt. Waiter James, and Mr. L. L. Baker, of Bishopviile,' - were in the city today. Miss Annie Cunningham, who has been visiting in the city went to Bish opille today to speiKe sometime with relatives. Rev. W. J. McKay, of Salem, spent ^Thursday iu. town. Mr. C. E. Strange of Pinewood was in the city Saturday. v IMrs. John a Wilson, of Manning, is visiting:in thecity. Judge Purdy has returned from a short visit to Virginia; Mr. W. A. Stuckey, o? Bishopviile,* was in the city last week. Dr. Frank Sawyer; of Georgetown, spent Monday in the city. Mrs. C. L. Stubbs is visiting Mrs. W. C. Bull in Spartaaburg. Mrs. C. C. Fishbnme and children left last Saturday for Saluda. Mr. and Mrs. L. . Durant left on last Friday for Glenn Springs. Mr. G. A. Lemmon went to Magno lia yesterday *to spend the day. Miss Erma Kimmons of Concord, N. C, is visiting Miss Zoe Hall. Dr. and Mrs. Abe Weinberg, of Camden spent Friday in the city. Capt. J. P. Brock, of Summerton, was in town yesterday on business. Miss Gussie Hood has gone to Co lumbia to visit Mrs.. Lemuel Scott. Mr. J. J. Brittos, Jr., has gone to Glenn Springs to spend several weeks. Mrs. D. P. Duncan and children have gone to Saluda for the summer. Capt. J. E. Atkins, of M?yesville, was in town on business last Thursday morning. Mrs. Louis Levi, of Manning has, " been visiting Mrs. Mitchell Levi for several days. < Messrs. Willie Buitman and W. R. \Burgess, of the firm of Buitman Bros., are both quite sick. Miss Mamie Steedman returned to } her homo in Camden Monday after a week's visit to relatives. Mrs. J. B. Witherspoon, of Ker : sfaaw, is visiting her sons, Wither spoon Bros., for a few days Mrs. W G. Thompson and four chil dren of Savannah, Ga., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Brown. Rev. Frank Wardlaw, of Indian iown, passed through th? city yesterday - morning on the way to Piedmont. Mr. P. P. Finn, who has been on the^Flo nce-Wadesboro run for seve ral weeks was in the city yesterday. Mr. M. G. Syttenberg left last week for Long Branch, N. J,, where he will spend the remainder of the summer. Dr, A. C. Dick and family have re turned home from Pineville after an basence from the city of several weeks. Mr. Robert Shuford, recently of Co lumbia where he-was in the employ of Mimnaugh, is now with O'Donneil & Co. Mrs. H. G. Osteen and little daugh ter, and Mrs. W. B. Murray and Miss Essie Murray went to Saluda, C., yesterday morning. Maj. H. F. Wilson, who came home to attend to his duties as Master on ' salesday, returned to Henderson vi lie, N. C, this morning. Mr. Samuel Sanders, who has been with O'Donneil & Co., for several years, is now with the brokerage firm of George D. Shore & Bro. Messrs. G. A. Lemmon and B. J. Bhame arrived home last week from a month's trip to California and through the great Northwest. Mr. T. Lynam has gone to Angusta, Ga., where he will spend a month in the Western Union Tele graph office, working as relief for his brother Frank, who spends the month at home, during which time he will have charge of the local Western Union Telegraph ofBee. The survivors of Company B, Fifth Battalion, South Carolina Reserves, are requested to meet *in the Court House at 12 o'clock, Saturday July 12th. A. J. Moses, J. W Bradford, Joel E. Branson. There are now forty-three convicts working on the county chain gang, and Supervisor Seale is making the gang do fine work on the public roads. A surprising amount of work of a per manent character has been accomplish ed in the past two years. ' A negro woman named Ramsey who lives on Haynsworth street made a de termined effort to commit suicide on Thursday night. She saturated her clothing with kerosene oil and then set herself on fire. She was terribly burned and while she did not succeed in taking her life immediately the probabilities are that she will not re cover. SUPERINTENDENT OF MANNING SCHOOL Mr. W. A. Stuckey, of Bishopviile, Elect ed by the Manning Trustees. Mr. W. A. Stuckey, of Bishopviile, has been elected principal and Super intendent of the Manning Graded School to fill the place of Prof. Pugh, who recently resigned. Mr. Stuckey is a son of Dr. Heniy Stuckey and has been engaged in high school work in Texas for the past six yeais. He is an A. B. graduate of the South Caro lina College and Master of Arts of Vanderbilt University, where he took a post graduate course of two years after completing the regniar conrse in the South Carolina College. HARRIED. On the 3d inst., at the residence of the bride's parents, in this city, C. L. DnCom of Wedgef?eld to Mary Dell, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Silas Mellett, Dr. C. C. Brown officiating. DEATHS. Mrs. Mary P. Bichardson, nee Wil der, widow" of the late James S. G. Richardson, of this city, died in Co lumbia Monday morning after a pro tracted illness, in the Slst year of her age. The body was brought to this city on the afternoon train yesterday, and the funeral services held at cemetery immediately after the arrival of the train. Mrs. Richardson leaves one daughter, Mrs. Emma R. Moses, of "Washington, D. C. Her only son, the late Guignard Richardson, died many years ago. She was a sister of Mr. Winfield Wilder, and of Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Logan all of this city. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Williams died Monday at 1 o'clock.. Funeral and interment yester day morning. . Miss Jane McKagen died very sud denly Thursday night about 9 o'olcck at the home of her sister, Mrs. Clark, with whom she lived. The funeral services were held on Friday ?t the First Methodist Church. _;_? . . .. Mrs. M. A. Madden, mother of Mrs. J. J. Barrett and widow of the late J. JH. Madden, died at her home in this city on. Monday. The' funeral was at St Joseph's Chapel on Tuesday at 10 a. m. . , aiaa There was a fine rain in the Gordon section of Concord township yesterday. The ladies will find the new adver tisement of O'Donnell & Co. of par ticular interest today. There were showers in several sec tions of Sumter county Sunday night, but only a few drops of rain fell m this icity. The series of meetings at Bartlette Street Baptist Church closed Monday night, and Mr. Oliver returned to Florence Tuesday morning Work was commenced last Wednesday on Main street to fill in with macadam and raise the level of the street four inches. s The only registering government thermometer in the city on Saturday registered 105 degrees, the high wa* ter mark of the present hot spell. J. Ryttenberg & Sons began a shirt waist sale today. They are offering a choice line of colored shirt waists at less than.New York cost. See the ad vertisement for prices. . The show advertised to be at the Opera House Friday night did not fill the engagement. It is probably stranded somewhere up the road. The Executive Committee of the United Charities will meet Wednesday afternoon at 7 o'clock in the City Glerk's office to consider plans, for the summer work. Every member should attend. JJA counter petition against the granting of the franchise to the Bell telephone company has been circulat ed for signatures for the past few days and it will be presented at the next meeting of the City Council. A new schedule will be put on the Northwestern R. R., on July 15th. On that date the morning train from Cam den will begin running through to Gibson, N. C, returning in the after noon and going through to Camden that evening. The candidates for county offices are very backward in publicly announcing themselves! If one is to judge from reading the cards in the county papers the conclusion would be that there are few aspirants for office in Sumter county. There will be a game of base ball at the park this afternoon, between the Sumter Game Cocks and the Co lumbia Klondikes. Game to be called at 4.30 ?'clock. Admission 10 cents; reserved seats 10 cents. Both teams are imposed of colored ball players. The public is respectfully invited to attend. The Washington correspondent of the News and Courier telegraphed his paper on the 3d as follows in reference to the Sumter ^ostoffice: "For some unknown reason Mr. Shore who fail ed of confirmation as postmaster at Sumter, was not included in the list of recess appointments. At the post office department it is said that an other man may be commissioned for that office, although no definite action has yet been taken in the direction." Schwartz Bros, have a big adver tisement on the 4th page today. Jit is a big advertisement but it chronicles a big occasion for the Palace Dry Goods Emporium and a big opportu nity for the people of this city and section The cost sale that Schwartz Bros, announce is one of the greatest opportunities for bargains the people of Sumter have had for many months and they will not be slow to take ad vantage of it. Read the advertisement and see for yourself what is offered. CAMPAIGN MEETING TODAY. Senatorial and Congressional Candidates Speak in Opera House. The senatorial campaign meeting is'being held in the Opera House to day, meeting being called to order promptly at 10.30 o'clock. The speakers will be Col. William Elliott, J. J. Hemphill, D. S. Hen derson, George Johnstone, A. C. Lati mer, and John Gary Evans, the sena torial candidates, and A. F. Lever and J. B. McLaughlin, the candidates for congress in the Seventh district. The attendance will probably not be. large for very little interest has been manifested in tbe campaign, and there is absolutely no enthusiasm. All of the candidates have friends in this county and the meeting is not likely to have much effect upon them. The majority of the voters, however, have not yet picked their candidates and if there is any considerable crowd at the meeting the candidates will have the opportunity to make friends and The meeting today may prove more spirited and interesting than anticipated, for Latimer and Evans are on tbe ragged edge of a row and the trouble may break out at any time. CAMDEN'S RECKLESS CHARGES. A Reply to an Article in the Wateree Messenger and a Statement of Facts. The disappointment of the Camden hose wagon team over their failure to win first prize for the hose wagon race in the firemen's tournament in this city last week has led them to make reckless charges that are un founded and untrue. The following is taken from the Wateree Messenger, of Camden : " Our superb fire company went to Sumter last week to take part in the firemen's contest. They won third prize. We regret to learn that there is considerable dissatisfaction at the way our firemen were treated, and we have heard a number say that they won first prize, but were cheated out of it. In the : first place they were forced by circumstances to use about 20 feet more hose than the others; while the run was made one second quicker than any of the contestants made it, the. firemen assert positively that they did not have the pressure. We regret to hear all of this, and Sum ter owes it to herself to explain this matter. if she can. With equal pres sure, our firemen say they would have been easy winners, in spite of being forced to use 20 feet more hose. In the quick hitch up, they claim that they were treated with scant cour tersy. " - "In the first place," what "circum stances forced" Camden to use '' about 20 feet more hose than the others"? The Camdeh "team knew that 288 feet was the minimum amount of hose al lowed to be used in the contest. Why, then, did they go to the starting point of the race, when their time to run came, with only 283 feet on their hose wagon? Why did they say the hose had been measured-' and found all right, when it had not been measured by the starting judge, the only person author ized to measure it for the race? Why did they kick so vigorously against having it measured, as had been done in the case of all other teams? Was it "circumstances," or a premeditated plan to make the race with short measured hose that got the Camden team into this predicament? 'In the second place: the run was not "made one second quicker than any of the contestants * made it." The record is: Delgar: to'the hydrant, 17 seconds; to the judges' stand, seconds ; wa ter 33 seconds. Camden : to the hydrant, 16 4-5 sec onds; to the judges' stand, 223-2 sec onds : water 35 2-5. The Camden "firemen may assert positively that they did not have the pressure" without the assertion being true. Againsf the bare assertion of interested parties is placed the state ment of Mr. L. E. White, Street Com missioner of Sumter, sworn officer of the city, who was stationed at the hydrant by the Mayor to keep a rec ord of the pressure during the races. Mr. White's record shows that Cam den had 54 pounds pressure, neither more nor less than the other teams had. Mr. H. L. Scarborough, County Treasurer and'Superintendent of the Sumter Water Company, and Alderman W. H. Epperson, who has charge of the pumping station, state that the pumps were kept at work throughout the hose wagon contest and that the stand pipe was kept full of water from the beginning to the end of the races. They say also that 54. to 55 pounds is the maximum amount of pressure that can be developed at the hydrant used in this contest. These are the facts supported by the record and reinforced by the statements of men whose word no one does or can question. The tourn?ment was conducted from first to last with absolute fairness, and the people of Sumter would not have stood for any cheating, trickery or injustice to any team. It was a fair, field and no favor, and of all the judges but one was a Sumter mah, and he was selected by the Newberry fire men. The only charge of unfairness comes from Camden and it comes with an ill grace from the only team that was detected and called down in an at tempt to violate the rules governing the contest. Sumter could afford to ignore the vaporings of Camden's dis gruntled and defeated firemen, but when a recklessscharge is given public ity and the endorsement of a reput able newspaper such as the Wateree Messenger, a statement of the facts becomes necessary. While explanations are being made the Sumter firemen would be pleased to have the Camden team explain how it happened that when they went to have their wagon weighed the after noon before the race they did not strip i.t of everything, movable as the rules required, including upwards of 300 pounds of old iron which was conceal ed in the box under the seat? The wagon weighed so much morefthan the other stripped hose wagons that some of the firemen insisted that i"t be re weighed. When this was done the boxes were opened and inspected and the old iron discovered and removed. An explanation of this "circumstance" will be quite interesting, to say the least. IS YELLOW POISON in your blood ? Physicians call it fiala rial Germ. It can be seen changing red blood yellow under microscope. It works day and night. First, it turns your com- ^ plexion yellow. Chilly, aching | sensations creep down your #j backbone. You feel weak" and a worthless. ROBERTS' CHILL TONIC | will stop the trouble now. It \ enters the blood at once and ? drives out the yellow poison. |i If neglected and when Chilis, |j Fevers, Night-Sweats and a gen eral break-down come later on, Roberts' Tonic will cure you <jj then?but why wait ? Prevent future sickness. The manufac- g turers know ali about this yel- jg low poison and have perfected Roberts' Tonic to drive it out, nourish your system, restore appetite, purify the blood, pre vent and cure Chills, Fevers and Malaria. It has cured thous ands?It will cure you, or your money back. This is fair. * Try st. Price, 25 cents.. A. J. CHINA, T. D. CHANDLER ^ /$ ?i i \ AT COSTI Every Spring Suit for Men, Boys and "& ai .4 WILL BE SOLD AT ACTUAL COST CA You can't afford to miss this saie. Come while we have your size. * '* 1 < S 4 ^ ?$**$* *$? ?^ . J Clothier and Furnisher, Phone 166. Suinter, S. C. CANDIDATES' CAEDS The cards of candidates for county and State offices "will be inserted in this column countinuously until the Primary Election for Five (?5) Dollars, payable cash in ad vance. FOR COUNTY AUDITOR. The friends of j. Diggs Wilder, appre ciating his past faithfulness and fidelity to duty, hereby announce him as a candidate for re-eiection to the office of County Audi tor, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. COUKTY SUPERVISOR. Mb. Editob:?The friends of W. H. Seale beg to present him as a candidate for re-election to the office of Supervisor. He has been faithfnl, diligent and eco nomical and should be rewarded with a second term. His Fbiends. The undersigned begs to announce to his friends and the voters generally of Sumter Connty that he is a candi date for the office of County Supervi sor, subject to the Democratic primary. He is acquainted with the duties of the onice and will give the same his best attention if elected. T. N. Huggins. SUPT. OF EDUCATION. We hereby nominate Mr. W. j. Rees as a candidate for Superintendent of Educa cation of Snmter Connty, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. Votebs. We present to the voters of Snmter connty at the primary election the name of S. Dwight Cain for the office of Connty Superintendent of Education. Mr. Cain is thoroughly qualified, and has been con stantly engaged in teaching in this, his native county, and Richland, the past six years. Friends. FOR COUNTY TREASURER. The friends of Marion Dorn, having con fidence in his ability and efficiency, hereby announce him as a candidate for the office of Connty Treasurer, subject to the Demo cratic primary. He will abide the result of the election and support the nominees of the party. The friends of T. W. Lee have solicited j him to allow his name to be used as a j candidate for County Treasurer, and he j has consented. His competency is without question and his Democracy unimpeach able. Mr. Lee will abide the result of the primary and support the nominees of the party. _ FOR JUDGE OF PROBATE. Thankful to the citizens of Sumter j County for their suffrages in the past, I most respectfully announce myself as a candidate for re election as Judge of Pro bate at ensuing Primary. I will abide the result of the Primary and support the nominees of the Democratic party. Yours for service, THOS. V. WALSH. A BARGAIN IN PENS. Sumter, S. C, May 20.?We have just bought, at a sacrifice sale, >0 gross Esterbrook's Pens, assorted sizes, which we offer at 30 cents a gross. The Esterbrook pen is the standard in quality and is never sold for less than 75 cents a gross?many stationers charge $1 a gross. H. G. OSTEEX & CO., Liberty Street. We Sell and Recommend THE ROYAL WORCESTER -?-and BON TON GORSETS (Straight Front) Designed to conform in every way to the prevailing gowns. Absolutely the most stylish and per fect fitting Corset ever produced. Prices from 50c to $8. O'DONNELL & CO. N. B.?Any lady sending us her name on or before August 15th will be mailed a beautifully illustrated catalogue, ^showing all the prevailing styles in cor sets, telling you how to select a corset to suit your figure, and also giving prices of the different makes. Any corset selected from catalogue (not in stock) will be ordered by mail.