The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, August 30, 1899, Image 4
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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 30.1899
The Sumter Wotc/iman was roundea
in 1850 and the True Southron in 1866
The Watchman and Southron now has
the combined circulation and influence
of both of thc old papers, and is mani
festly the best advertising medium in
Sunter.
GOOD WORK UNDONE.
City Council took the back traok last
Wednesday night. The hogs still hold
the fort tad the anti-hog ordioaoee is
relegated to the rear. Hogs may hold
high carnival io the oily, and hog pens
will continue . to breed fever until the
frosts of November kill the germs in
the natural course of events. In the
meanwhile those who dislike the steoob
arisiog from filthy hog pens oan but
v hold their noses and wait with patience
and abnegation uotil cold weather
brings them relief. If any oae
contracts fever it will be his
own fault, for it will be easy of
demonstration that bad he but observed
proper precautions and exercised due
f diligenoe in holding his ness the frisky
fever germs could not have gamed a
foothold in his system. It may be a
trifle annoying and inconv nient, but it
wiii be no severe hardship for people
to bold their noses until November
15th. Io an emergency they might
resort to olotbes pins or plag their nos
trils with cotton that had been satu
rated with some reliable germicide. In
all events the hogs must not be dis
turbed; they most have none of their
privileges abrogated ; they must be
permitted to root and wallow and or ate
all the stench ac d filth and fever that
they have been accustomed to. If the
worst comes to the worst the Chief of
Police may be appointed the especial
guardian of the hogs and it will be his
duty to make a daily tour of the oity
with a liberal supply of chloride of lime,
rose water and other toilet scented arti
cles to deodorize and perfume the orban
quarters of the great American hog.
But to get down to hard facts. Oo
the 10:h instant the anti-hog ordinance
was passed by a unanimous vote of all
the members present at the special
meeting of the City Counoil. The
ordinance was to gc into ef
fect immediately after dee pub
lication. It bas been published and
would have gone into effect oo the25tb.
"The people of the city tock it for grant
ed that the council meant exactly what
it said and iotended to eoforoe the
ordioaoee to the letter on August 25th.
A majority of the owners of hogs im
mediately begao disposing of their
hogs, either selling them at a sacrifice
or seodiog them out of the city. They
wished to obey the law of the city and
they set about doing so oo matter what
toe cost totbeaseWes might be, for it
was generally admitted that the re
moval of bogs from the city aod the
total abolition of hog peos was neces
sary, and the City Couooil had aoted
in the interests of the city as a whole,
wita oo desire to work a hardship on
the owners of bogs. The members of
couooil as well as ali others recognized
that many who owned b - would suf
fer a loss, bat, while this was nc fort u
nate and to be regretted, coo s ii erat i cn
for the health of oir citizeos and the
weil being of the city, and
io response to a general ce mac d
that the bog LU isa eec be abated
at once aod finally, impelled them
to declare that the keeping of bogs
within the city limits ebould no longer
be permitted. A majority cf hog own
ers had already seid their bogs a: a
sacrifice, or otherwise disposed of them,
and to them it woola have been no
hardship for the ordinance togo ioto ef
fect. Whatever hardship the ordinance
entai s has already beeo felt by a aaa
jority of those wbo would softer from it,
and the suspension of the ordioaoee
was ill-advised and is calculated to de
the city teo fold more damage and entail
len-fold greater hardships upon
ninety per cent of .the residents of
the city than its enforcement woold
upoo the oweers of bogs. Council
knew jost as well on Aagust 10th as it
did.oo August 24th, that the ordioaoee
would be a hardship to maoy law-abid
3Dg citizens aod tazpayers, aod if it
was not fully decided to drive the hogs
cut the ordinance should have been
voted down theo. This thing of doing
and then uodoiog a thing without the
introduction of nsw facts tends to dis
credit the council, for we ceo never
knew exactly what to expect.
One Minute Cough Cure quickly cure3 ob
stinate summer coughs and colds. "I con
sider is a most wonderful medicine-quick
and safe."-W. W. Merton, Mayhew, Wis.
THE BUSINESS LEAGUE.
The tax exemption ordinance has
been safely landed, and the next
thing is to organize the business men
of the city with a 6trong, united and
working body that will bring the fae
tories to Sumter. The initiative has
been taken by Mr. Altamont Moses,
President of the Board of Trade, who
has called a meeting at the Sumter
Club on Thursday night. Every
business man and ail others who are
interested in the development of the
city and are willing to do their share
of the work that is necessary, should
attend the meeting. By united effort
and systematic work we can build a
city on the foundation that has been
aid, but if the people do not pull to
getber, if they do not work systemat
ically, nothing can be accomplished.
Therefore, it is necessary for some
organization to be formed to foster
and direct the work Sumter must
be kept prominently before the public
and the advantages that we possess
in climate, pure water, cheap fuel
railroad facilities, exemption from
taxes, cheap land, cheap timber and
building material and others that it is
needless to mention here, must be
placed before capitalists who are
seeking locations for factories. First
of all, however, and of most import
ance, the people of Sumter must get
together and prove their faith by
their works. It is true that a great
deal bas been done in the past few
years, but we must do more to prove
that Sumter is to be a manufacturing
town and by the success of home en
terprises attract outside capital.
Right now Sumter needs a roller mil!,
another cotton mill, another railroad
to connect with the Seaboard Air
Line, and other enterprises too num
erous to mention There is a great
work to be done and we hope the
meeting Thursday night will result in
the organization of a Business
League that will have, from the out
set, the working spirit and the
energy and tenacity to carry every
undertaking through to success.
PHILADELPHIA OBJECT LES
v SON.
Philadelphia is next to New York
the greatest manufacturing city in the
country, aod, population considered, it
is ahead of the larger city. There are
nacre than 20,000 facteries in Phila
delphia, with an annual produotion
exceeding $600,000,000 in value.
These factories pay taxes only upon
their real estate. Philadelphia not
only exempts the manufacturing plants
for a term of years, but for ail time.
Factories are encouraged to locate there
and it is made to the interest of the
owoers of factories to remain there and
increase their investments. It is this
policy that made Philadelphia a great
city and enables her to hold the place
that bas been won. If thc South will
adopt a similar policy manufactur es
will multiply ic cumber and grow in
importance. The South has the Dato*
ral advantages and it devolves upon
the people of the Soutb to create and
maintain conditions that will foster
factories to work up our raw material
and turn out Swished products. Raw
material is generally sold at a bare
margin and often for less than the cost
of production, while the profit Hes in
toe finished product. The road to
wealth is through the factory, and if the
South is ever to reap the profit from its
great volume of raw products she must
have more factories. The city or State
that has tbe most factories and turns
the greatest amount of raw material
into finished and marketable products
will inevitably become richer than less
progressive neighbors
THE SEABOARD BRANCH
We are pleased to know that the j
people of Bisbopville approve of our i
suggestion that Sumter and Bisbop
ville unite forces to work for a Sea
board Air Line connection This ie
not a visionary and impractical
scheme, but a business proposition
that bas strong and lasting arguments
of a practical nature to be urged in
its support. In the first place, Sum
ter and Bisbopville and the country
lying between them need a branch
road controlled and operated by the
Seaboard Air Line. In the second
place, the Seaboard Air Line needs
the business that the proposed branch
would secure for it The main line
from Cheraw to Columbia passes1
through a country that is, to a large
extent, except in the immediate
vicinitv of Cheraw, Camden and Co
lumbia, poor and undeveloped, and
that will furnish only a limited
amount of local business, apait from
the timber business that is to be CH
veloped immediately. With a branc
line to Sumter via Bishopville rh
conditions woulc^ be different. 1
would pass through a thickly settle
and prosperous country, and woui
have two prosperous towns ou it
line The business of Sumter an
Bishopville aione would be a consic
erable item, but from the countr
between the two places, now withoi
a railroad within convenient distance
a large volume of business would b
drawn from the day the road wa
opened, and with each year the bus
ness would increase, for that sectio
of the country is developing year b
year, and there is still room for gre
improvement that would follow as
natural result of the building of
railroad through it. We trust th
business men of Bishopville will tak
up the matter and agitate it so tha
they will have things in shape to co
operate with Sumter when the mov
is made.
Wheat ean be grown io this county
as the experience of those who plante
it this year proves. Mr. J. M. Prog
don, of Concord, planted two acre
from which be gathered thirty bushels o
clean wheat Mr. R. I. Mannin
planted 3-J sores on bis place nea
Mannvilie, and the yield was 13 bufeh
els and 3 pecks to the aore. Tbl
wheat was planted late-some tim<
after oats had been planted-and thc
land was not as good as the average, a
the wheat crop was an after-tbougbi
and the best land had been planted ic
oats. The only manure the wheal
received was twenty bushels of cotton
seed to the acre. Other farmers in
various sections of the oounty planted
wheat iast fail, and all of them.are
said to be well pleased with the result
of the experiment. There is no doubt
about the ability of farmers in Sumter
oounty to raise ail the wheat needed for
home consumption, and ne hope everj
farmer will plant a few acres this fall.
Ten bushels of wheat to the acre is
better than the average cotton orop,
and the farmer will not be forced to
sell wheat at any prioe he is offered.
He can eat it and live at home.
From the Daily Item, Aug. 26.
One factory employing one hundred
and ten hands and paying out more
than 500 per week in wages and turn*
ing out more than $100,000 worth of
manufactured products is worth working
for, and there are dozens of progressive
cities io tbe South that know it. Since
it was announced that the Telephone
Manufacturing Company was looking
for a site for a new factory and it might
seek a location in some other town, Mr.
Mason has been flooded with letters
offering inducements Columbia is in
the front in the effort to capture thc
factory and Col. Wilie Jones, Dc. Ker.
dail, the Manufacturers7 Club and oth
ers have offered sites for the factory on
terms to be named by the company.
Charleston, Knoxville, Florence, Cbc
raw, Augusta and Atlanta and other
towns have also invited the officers or
the ccmpany visit them and offered
inducements to secure thc location of
the factory. Ali of them offer exemp
tion from taxation for a term of years
and some offer free sites. Tho tele
phone factory is a big thing now, but
within a year it wili be bigger, and it
has a business that is growing with
such rapidity that it is impossible to
keep up with orders. The merchants
of Sumter know that it is a good thing
for the place, for the wages paid the
hands is spent largely with them every
week, lt will be a better thing if the
new factory is built in Sumter, and all
that is needed to keep the factory is the
ratification of the tax exemption ordi
nance and the rigid enforcement cf
regulations that will insure the main
tenance of sanitary conditions in the
oity and espeoialiy in the imm diat
vioinity of the faotory. The skilled
workmen brought here from the north
and west are not accustomed to work
with filthy bog pens under their very
noses and they will not stay in Sumter
if they are rtquired to do so. They
receive good salaries from the Tele
phone Manufacturing Co., but no more
than they can get in any other factory,
aod they will not remain in a place
where they believe their health is en
dangered by unsanitary surroundings,
these arc hard facts that have a practi
cal and immediate bearing upon the
present and future prosperity of this
city, and thinking and public spirited
citizens should consider them.
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good than all blood medicines aod other '
pills,'' write3 Geo. h. Jacobs, of Thompson, j
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cure constipation, arouse the torpid ive: to !
action and give you clean blood, steady j
nervis, a clear brain and a healthy appetite. '.
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SUMTER MUST MOVE TOO.
Frota the Daily Item, Aug 23.
Florence and Darlington are work
ing together to induce the Seaboard
Air Line to build a branch road from
the main line between Cheraw and
Camden to those towns The branch
road would be about thirty miles in
length, would traverse a fine farming
country and would have two of the
mo.-t prosperous towns in eastern
South Carolina from which to draw
business. The only thing that can
be said against the proposed road is
that it would for a part of the dis
tance, parallel two divisions of the
Atlantic Coast Line, viz : the Cheraw
and Darlington R R and the Harts
ville RR It is claimed, however,
that in spite of this there would be
sufficient business to support the new
railroad and pay interest on the in
vestment We hope the people of
Darlington and Florence will succeed
in interesting the Seaboard in the
plan and will eventualiy succeed in
having the road built In this con
nection we desire to repeat the sug
gestion made several months ago,
notwithstanding the fact that it met
with no approval, that the Sumter
Board of Trade and business men
of this city make an organized effort
to induce the Seaboard Air Line to
build a branch to Sumter Starting
from a point on the Cheraw and
Camden line above Bishopville, a
road could be buiit to this city
through a thickly settled and rich
farming country that would not ex
ceed 30 miles in length. Bishopville
excepted, this sectiou of country,
the richest, naturally, in the county,
is without railroad facilities, and the
local business alone would support a
railroad There are no high hills to
grade nor are there any large streams
to be bridged A road buiit from
this city via Bishopville to connect
with the main line of the Seaboard
Air Line would benefit Sumter and
would be of immense advantage to
the town of Bishopville and the
whole section of country through
which it wonid pass This road is
fully as feasible as the proposed Dar
lington Florence road, in and some
respects has more to be said inuits
favor If the business men of Sum
ter wouid get together and secure
the co operation of the people along
the line and of the people of
Bishopville they would stand a chance
of getting the road. If they sit
down and do nothing, waiting for the
good Lord to move the railroad mag
nates to build it of their own volition
without aid or encouragement, it will
never be built. The road could be
built for $8,000 a mile or less, and if
Sumter wanted it bad enough the
money could be found to build it
within a year. As we have said be
fore the people of a town must get a
move on them unless they want the
town to go to seed, and it seems to
us that right now is the time lo make
a move. Others are moving and we
are likely to get left if we do not
move also.
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Claremont Loftus Ko. 64, A. F. M.
THE REGULAR MONTHLY COMMU
NICATION of Claremont Lodge, No.
64, A. F. M.. will be held on Thursday
Evening, September 14, at 7 p. m. Brethren
will take due notice aad govern themselves
accordingly
B. J. RH A ME, W. M.
Attest-H. C. MOSES Sec.
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One car load Corn at 60c ^sl
One car load No. 2 Oats at 37c
One car load Lime--150 barrels
One car load Portland Cement
One car load Hay-on hand.
A full line of Farm Wagons-one and two
Horse; carriages,buggies, surreys and road
carts.
Essex and Berkshire Pigs and a pretty
Jersey Heifer*
Respectfully,
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a number of broken lots ot
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