The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, June 18, 1902, Image 2
THReU6H0UT SOUTH GASOLINA.
Current Events in the Palmetto
State Laconically Recorded.
?Greenwood proposes to have a
county fair this fall.
?The president has appointed J. P.
Murphy postmaster at Bamberg.
?The scheme for a permanent ex
hibition at Charleston has been aban
doned.
?Work will soon be started on the
construction of the, cotton mill at
Ninety-Six.
?Forty-five graduates received dip
lomas at the South Carolina College
commencement
?There will be an election in the
city of Orangeburg to determine the
sewerage question.
?EL G. Kammer, of Gadsden, ex
hibited the first cotton bloom ol: the
year in Columba on Friday, June 13. ?
?Prof. J. R. T. Major has been
elected principal of theBatesburg Col
legiate Institute, with four assistants.
?The young men of Manning are
making an effort to get up a brass
band, and so far the subscriptions
are very eneo raging.
" ?The dispensary at Midway is not a
financial success, and there is serious
talk is.. the Bamberg County board
of control of closing it up.
?Fire at Greenwood early in the
morning of the 11th inst. destroyed
property to the vaine of $4,000. The
town has no fire department.
?It has been definitely decided that
the state reunion of Confederate veter
ans will be held the 7th and 8th of
August at Greenville.
?The State Board of Dispensary
Directors has consented to the estab
lishing of a third beer dispensary at
Spartanburg.
?Governor McSweeney has formally
announced that he will not be a candi
date for re-election as chief magistrate
of the State.
?The total profits of the five local
dispensaries in Columbia for the
month of May amounted to $2,890.06,
which goes to the city and county.
?It will be requierd hereafter that
the students of the South Carolina
College must make 65 pe:: cent, in
stead of 60 per cent, to pass examina
tions.
?The homing pigeons which Mr.
C. H. Brennecke, of Chaster, liber
ated on Sunday, June 1st, at 5.23 in
the morning:, reached Baltimore, a dis
tance of 400 miles, at 4.40 p. m
?Work on the large new tourist
hotel at Camden, the "Kirkwood,"
has commenced, and will te rapidly
pushed to completion.
?James Brown, colored, was way
laid and shot on Lady's Island, Beau
fort County, Saturday 1 night. The
side of his head was filled with No. 8
shot, but none penetrated the skulL
?Adam Huger, a negro, will be
hanged at Monck's Corner on July ^
:for the morder of Charles Gadsden, at
Ferguson, on March VL. This will be
be the first execution at Monck's
Corner court house.
?Under . the heading of "Port
Boyal -Ka vai Station," the aval ap
>riation bill as passed by the sen
contains the following item:
'The secretary of the navy is directed
to investigate and report to the next
?The sixth annual commencement
of Clemson College is over and an
other session of 1901-1902 has passed
into history, without further .manifes
tations of trouble between the cadet
corps; and the presidents
?In a trotting race at Stacldiouse's
driving park, Marion, between C. P.
Berry's bay mare Gradie and J. W.
Ragsdale's brown mare Kitty Nutwood
the first named won.
?McMakin, the Spartanburg boy,
has not been released from the big
Brooklyn baseball team, On the con
trary, he is said to be doing fine work
in the box. McCann was the man
released.
?The ether day a spark from a loco
motive on the Charleston and Western
Carolina Railway set fire to cordwood
of J. D. Watts, on the outskirts of
Laureas, and ?53 cords were burned.
?The bonds issued by the city of
Greenwood for the purpose of putting
ia a sewerage system have been passed
upon and accepted and the money has
been received. Work will begin at an
early day.
?While paying on the trestle on
the Seaboard Air Line railway at
Chester, Johnnie Hogg, 13 years old,
became overbalanced and fell back
wards from the trestle, his head strik
ing the timbers. He died the follow
ing day, from concussion of the brain.
?President Walters has officially in
' formed the Charleston City Council
that the Atlantic Coast Line head
quarters will not be removed from
.Wilmington at present, and it was
useless for other places to make appli
cation for them.
?Herbert Floyd, colored, who is
wanted in Laurens county as the prin
cipal in the murder of John Nance,
also colored, in Crow Hill township,
in October last, has been captured in
Baltimore, and Deputy Sheriff Buncn
' Power, armed with requisition papers,
has gone for Floyd.
session of congess the state and condi
tion of the government property at
Port Royal, S. C, its value and the
practicability of its removal to another
navy yard, etc." The appropriation
for the new naval station and dock
at Charleston was increased from
$100,000 to $106,000.
?It is practically certain that Clem
son college will have a United States
army officer as military commandant
at the beginning of the next session.
Senator Tillman has secured the
promise from the war department to
have a suitable officer detailed for
such service. This will materially im
prove the discipline of the institution.
?T; <. work of paying the tobacco
rebate clnims arising under the war
revenue redaction act of last year has
been completed in the South Carolina
disticr. Collector Koester has mailed
the last of the checks in payment of
the claims. From this source 845,000
has been distributed in South Carolina
during the last fortnight.
?There:was a destructive hail storm
in the Cypress 'section of Darlington
County on the afternoon of June 8. It
injured corn badly, beat down cotton,
destroyed what oats had not been cut
and ruined the tobacco crop. Farmers
say that they will replant their tobac
co and corn. The hail stones were" in
places as large as hen eggs. Lots of
birds, yonng tnrkeys a?d small chick
ens were killed.
?The A. R. P. church at Pleasant
Hill, Lancaster County, was moved
several inches by a severe wind storm
last Sunday afternoon. The pastor
had iust pronounced the benediction
when the storm came up.
?The commencement exercises of
j Newberry College will be inaugurated
Sunday, June ? 15. The following
Wednesday will be commencement day.
?The salary of the postmaster at
Winnsboro has been reduced from
! $1,500 to $1,400, in consequence of the
I falling off in the sale of stamps.
?A strange'fatality seems to hang
about the depot agency at Elloree.
I During the few years since the railroad
was bnilt through that section three
agents have* died.
?The County Democratic Executive.
Committee of Aiken has decided to
have county dispensers chosen- by the
primary, despite the action of the
State convention to the contrary.
?The trustees of Erskine College,
Due West, have decided to erect a
monument in memory of the late Dr.
W. M. Grier, for many years the presi
dent of the college.
* ?A project is on foot to erect a cot
ton mill at Pembroke, on the line of
the proposed electric railway from
Bennettvsille to Dillon.
?The dwelling house of Warren V.
Culler, Orangeburg ^ County, was
destroyed by an incendiary fire on the
night Of the 9th insfc., involving a loss
of $2,000 or $2,500. No insurance.
?The Anderson Spool and Bobbin
Company, which will have a capital
stock of $4,000 and manufacture bob
bins and spools, has applied to the
Secretary of State for a charter.
?The work on the sewerage system
in Columbia is progressing rapidy.
One-third of the pipe has been laid.
This amount is equal to ten miles, the
system when completed comprising
about 28 miles.
?The Democratic campaign in South
Carolina opens next Tuesday and will
continue six weeks. The first meet
ing for State officers, will be held in
Sumter, in the Opera House. The
Senatorial and Congressional ball will
open in Columbia. **
?J. C. Bass, who recently resigned
the office, of coroner of Florence Coun
ty, will leave next week to make his
home in Norfolk, where several of his
sons hold good positions. His. wife
and daughter will accompany him.
?The rails for the trolley line from
Augusta have been laid through the
town of Aiken. A freight. depot will
"be erected on the outskirts of the
town. The power house is completed
and as soon as a few gaps are filled in
cars will commence running to and
from Augusta.
?A tablet to the memory of Confed
erate veterans in the vestibule of the
famous St. Michael's church, Charles
ton, was unveiled Thursday, with in
teresting ceremonies. The address was
delivered by Bishop Capers.
?Thursday, Jane 12, the distribu
tion of the fund to provide artificial
limbs for one-legged and one-armed
Confederate veterans was made by the
comptroller general There was some
thing over 0 beneficiaries and each
got a little less than $25. This is an
annual fund and the beneficiary has
the privilege of taking an artificial
limb or the money.
?The Columbia city council "re
ceived as information" a request from
the police commission to pass an ordi
nance prohibiting the operation of
slot machines in Columbia. They are
doing a flourishing business.
? -^partanburg is to have a new na
tional bank, with a capital stock of
$100,000, in which some of the most
practical and successful business men
in this portion of the south will be
materially interested. J. H. Sloan
will be the president.
?The corporators of the Columbia
and .Lexington electric railway have
had several routes between Lexington
and Brookland surveyed and staked
out. The construction of the line is
now an assured fact.
_ ?The State Hospital for the Insane
at Columbia now has 1,165 patients,
the largest number ever known. The
increase in the past month has been
64. No more patients can be received
until some arrangements are made for
additional quarters. The institution
is now overcrowded.
?James Brock, an aged inmate of
the Cb?rleston alms house, committed
suicide by slashing his throat with a
razor. Brock was in failing health
and his growing infirmity brought on
melancholia, which caused the rash
act. Mrs. Brock was with her hus
band when he committed the.act.
?W. M. Dibble, president of the
Bank o? Aiken, was out in his lot
Sunday afternoon, and was attacked
unawares by a large bull, which got
him downvand gored him badly. The
bull was beaten off by one of the farm
hands, who happened to be near. Mr.
Dibble is severely but not fatally in-,
jured. He was doing well at last ac
counts.
?From every section of Anderson
county comes the report tha'j the
wheat crop is the poorest that has
been grown in years, many farmers
estimating it below 50 per cent. It is
also reported that a number of gentle
men throughout the county who ope
rate threshing machines will not go
out at all this season, claiming that
it would be a loss to handle such a
light crop.
?It is customary for President
Hartzog to annually give a medal to
the student who writes the best essay
on a given subject. In view of the
recent troubles at Clems^n, it is a bit
amusing to note that the subject of
the essay that won the medal this year
was ''The Relation of Faculty and
Student," and, further, that it was
written by a student of the Tillman
tribe.
?The Anderson boys who attended
Clemson College say they are very
much disappointed in the reelection of
President liarrzosr, but that after the
action of the trustee had been an
nounced they made up their minds
to accept the situation without protest
and abide by the action of the
trustees. They say they listened to
Senator Ti liman 's speech in a respect
ful manner and bad no idea of show
ing him or President Hartzog or any
one else any discourtesy.
?J. J. Stone, 'dealer in musical
instruments and jewelry. Abbeville,
has been missing several days and his j
friends are somewhat anxious about
him and apprehensive as to- his per
sonal safety. Mr. Stone is a fine look
ing young man of 28 or 30 years, with
pleasing manners and fine address.
He was temperate and a regalar
church-goer.
?The thermometer at Anderson has
been ranging from 96 to 101 degrees in
the shade for several days.
?Hartsville is a prosperous little
town. It has a paper mill, a cotton
seed joil mill, and a cotton factory that
will start to work in few months.
?Capers C. Burton, 22 years old, son
of Cc A. Burton, of Walhalla, died in
Birmingham, Ala., from the effects
injuries received in a mine explosion
at Bloossburg, Ala.
?A Presbyterian church is to be
organized near the Laurens cotton
mill. The late Rev. David A. Todd
left a legacy of $1',000 to aid in build
ing a house of worship at that place.
?Bailey Pool, a young white man of
Anderson, has been tried and acquitted
of the murder of Enoch Crawford, a
negro, whom he shot and killed in
self-defense.
?A monument, to cost $1,000, to
the memory of the men who composed
the famous* Gist Rifles and who died
in the service of the Confederacy is to
be erected in the park at Williamston.
?Laney is the name of a new post
office established about four miles
from Cheraw, on the Wadesboro exten
sion of the Atlantic Coast Line rail
road.
?King W. H. Eaves is hybridizing
corn with the purpose of getting a field
variety that will in a hundred days
from planting.be ready for the mill.
Next week he will have mutton corn'
from field corn planted April 13th.
?It is proposed to consolidate the
Carolina Midland Railway Company
with the JSpartanburg and Asheville,
South Carolina and Georiga, and
I South Carolina and Georgia Extension
j railroad companies.
L ?The annual shoot of the Spartan
burg Gun Club will be held July ? at
Glendale Park. All events will be
handicap contests, 27 to 31 yards,
shooter having only one bird at a time.
American association rules to govern.
A committee of three will be appoint
ed to handicap.
?South Carolian has been signally
honored by the Tilden club, the new
Democratic Club of New York, which
is to make its debut on June ?19. The
committee on invitations have asked
Mr. John J. HemphiU of South Caro
lina to be present at the banquet on
that occasion and respond to the toast,
"The Southern Democracy."
?There are now over 50 candidates,
State and Congressional, who have
filded their pledges for the several
races to be run on the campaign this
summer. There are ten more in pros
pect who are expected to come to the
scratch and present their pledges
before the campaign formally opens.
?John Gary Evans has had a confi
dential chat in Washington with Sen
tor Tillman, since which time Evans
has announced that he would positive
ly be a candidate for United States
Senator. Tillman makes the signifi
cant statement that he will be "hands
off" in the race and that he intends to
pursue that policy throughout both
campaigns.
?The Carlisle Fitting School at
Bamberg is in a flourishing condition.
All the teachers have been re-elected,
as follows: H. G. Sheridan, head
master ; first assistant, N. M. Sal ley ;
second assistant, C. E. Boyd; lady
assistant, Miss Pet Stephens ; music
teacher, Miss Florrie Black. - Head
Master Sheridan will manage the boys'
boarding hall, while Rev. and Mrs. R.
B. Tarrant will have charge of the
boarding hall for girls.
?G. A. Tucker, a farmer of Abbe
ville County, recently found in his
grain a variety of small grain with
which he was not acquainted.
He applied to Clemson College for
information and received the foBow
ing letter from J. S. Newman, the
professor of agriculture : 1 ? The sample
of grain is spelt, an inferior grain
which is ned in some parts of Europe
for bread."
?Clemson College students say the
recently published reports of the bad
behavior of the boys of that institu
tion are greatly exaggerated.. It is
said that the report concerning the
recent general drunk indulged in by
the boys and the purchase of $179
worth of liquors is false to the core
?Fred P. Gramling, a Coast Line
engineer, lost three fingers one night
recently at Florence. He had left his
cab for the purpose of repairing a part
of the locomotive, and was in a kneel
ing posture with his hands on the rail
when a switched car bumped into the
engine. It was moved abput a foot,
but this was enough to. pin Mr. Gram
ling's hand to the rail, and he could
not free himself until the locomotive
had been reversed and run ahead a
little. Mr. Gramling's entire hand
was severely mashed and three of his
fingers had to be amputated.
New Federal Court Bill.
Congressman Lever has delivered
school addresses at Edgefield and sev
eral other places in the past few
weeks. Mr. Lever says that the new
Federal court bill is still hanging fire.
The bill is in charge of Congressman
Johnson, but he has been unable to
get the committee together, owing to
the fact that a great many of them are
home, looking after their re-election.
It is stated that the Republicans have
about agreed on adjournment, to take
place on July 5 ; and if that be true
and the biil cannot begotten through
the committee it stands slight chance
of passing this summer.
Mr. Lever will remain in the State
until the opening of the campaign and
will then return to Washington.
A Gentle Hint..
In our style of climate, with its sudden
changes of temperature,?rain, wind and
sunshine often intermingled in a single
day,?it is no wonder that our children,
friends and relatives are so frequently
taken from us by neglected colds, half the
deaths resulting directly from this cause.
A bottle of Boschee's German Syrup kept
about your home for immediate use will
preven: serious sickness, a large doctor's
bill, and perhaps death, by the ose of three
or four doses. For curing Consumption,
Hemorrhages, Pneumonia. Severe Coughs,
Croup, or any disease of the Throat or
Lungs, its success is simply wonderful as
your druggist will tell you. Get a sample
bottle from DeLorme's Pharmacy or
Sumter Pharmacy. Regular size, 75 cts.
Get Green's Special Almanac.
THE CITY FATHERS.
j At the regular meeting of City
? Council, held Wednesday evening,
j Alderman Schwerin called attention to
I the failure of the Atlantic Coast Line
; railroad company to finish Telephone
; street across Mary street, and suggest
I ed that Telephone street should be
1 continued in a straight line and not
j curved to run into Hauser street,
j Council thought the suggestion a good
one, and, on Alderman Chandler's
motion, the public works committee
were requested to urge upon the A.
C. L. company the importance of
doing this work without further delay.
J. J. Harby, manager of the Sum
ter Electric Light Company, requested
council to pay for the past two months
city lighting in full, or, if they prefer,
deduct what is claimed for lights not
burning and leave the question open
for adjustment.
On motion of Alderman Chandler,
the proposed settlement was ordered,
the clerk to retain $35.90 for lights
which did not burn?it being under
stood that such settlement had no bear
ing upon the Opera House lights and
questioLS in reference thereto now
in use.
Alderman Chandler, for the paving
committee, reported that Mr. Fair
had promised to finish all work, in
cluding the Main and Liberty streets
crossing, this week, but had not sent
his foreman, up to this time, to take
charge, though some material had ar
rived.
Alderman Dick complained of bicy
clists riding on the premises of the
Harvin street passenger station, which
he said was annoying and dangerous
to the crowds of ladies and children
who congregate there. Referred to the
commi tteee of public works.
Alderman Dick called attention to the
need of fire escapes to the'Opera House
and the danger there is of a catas
trophe there at some time in case of
fire while the building has a crowd
in it. The matter was referred to a
committee consisting of Aldermen
Dick, Schwerin and Chandler.
The clerk, was directed to request
A. M. Wallace, of Columbia, to come
to Sumter, at the city's expense for
railroad fare and board one day, to
confer with council in reference to
building artificial stone pavements.
Alderman Chandler moved that Mr.
Fair's offer be accepted to raise the
macadam on Main street, from Liberty
to Republican, at the rate of $60 for
! each 50 linear feet.
Alderman Schwerin thought this
work less important than improving
1 Liberty street from Main to Sumter,
and therefore opposed the resolution.
The resolution prevailed, however,
as council evidently thought this was
a comparatively trivial expenditure
and necessary to complete and preserve
what had been done already at a con
siderable outlay.
The committee on public works was
authorized to call for bids to macad
amize Liberty street from Harvin to
Sumter streets and Main street from
Republican to Canal streets.
The Superintendent of Streets was
directed to construct crossings at
Liberty and Church streets and at
Magnolia and Mill streets.
?n motion of Alderman Schwerin,
the committee of public works was
requested to put in terra cotta drains
at all places where bridges are now
used, as far as can be done?this to be
done at once where repairs are now
needed and in future as repairing be
comes necessary.
A second petition from citizens was
presented, asking that the ditch in
Church street from Haynsworth to
Broad streets be piped and filled up.
Alderman Hurst moved that action
be postponed until report be had from
the finance committee as to the condi
tion of the treasury.
The motion to postpone was not
agreed to.
The request of the petitioners was
then granted?council considering this
a necessary part of the improvements
recently made in Broad street, which
are not complete with the ditch left
open.
Witherspoon Bros. & Co. petitioned
for the privilege of a sidetrack from
the A. C. L. main line into their fac
tory premises, which was granted, and
an ordinance to permit the A. C. L.
company to construct, operate and
remove such track was read and adopt
ed under a resolution dispensing with
the rule which requires two readings.
The ordinance to extend the city
limits to include adjacent cemeteries
was read the second time, adopted and
ordered published.
The clerk presented a letter from
and made a statement at the request
of the Sumter Telephone Manufactur
ing Company setting forth their ground
of objection to paying for water ex
tension and hydrant .recently made to
Telephone street at their request. Ac
tion was deferred until the next meet
ing.
The request of Mrs. E. B. Yinson
for widening Haynsworth street was
referred to the committee on public
works, with power to act, as was also
the suggestion of Alderman Dick that
an effort be made to widen the south
side of Bartlette street at the Episco
pal Church.
The contract for the lease of the
Opera House to Mr. Abe Ryttenberg
and his bond were presented and ap
proved.
The opinion of Lee &, Moise on the
legal status of the city's water contract
with the American Pipe Company was
read. It will be published if permit
ted by the authors.
Aldermen Schwerin and Dick moved
that aei appropriation of 8250 be made
towards the firemen's tournament.
Alderman Boy lo opposed the motion,
on the ground that council has no
legal right or authority to spend pub
lic money on a matter of mere pleas
ure and entertainment. He declared
his friendship for and interest in the
firemen, and said he was willing to
aid them in raising the money by pri
vate subscription. No action was
taken on the proposition.
The report of the managers of the
election held on the 10th inst. for four
members of the City Board of Educa
tion was presented, showing 91 votes
cast in favor of E. C. Han s worth, J.
A. Mood, M. Moise and X^ill O'Don
nell. They were declared elected.
The Chief of Police was authorized
to employ as many special officers dur
ing the firemen's tournament as he
may consider necessary and to provide
ropes to keep back spectators ai*d "
vent accidents.
The following bills against tl(e <-'ir.v
were referred to the finance con*""*"
teefi : J. Ryttenberg Sons. 820f L.
B. Durant, 817.12: J. R. Hayns?0***
815: Witherspoon Bros. & Co., $ .
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING.
Arrangements Made for State and County
Campaign Meetings.
The County Democratic Executive
Committee met in the Court House at
11 o'clock Wednesday morning, with
County Chairman John M. Knight
presiding. Mr. H. L. B. Wells, the
Secretary, was in his place. The fol
lowing members were present:
Bossard?T. N. Huggins.
Farmers?W. J. Dinkins.
Laborers and Mechanics?H. L.
B. Wells.
Manchester?Geo. T. Geddings.
Privateer?W. O. Cain.
Salem?W. A. Cooper, proxy for E.
W. Dabbs.
Scarborough? ,7. D. Scarborough.
Stateburg?W. H. Ingram.
Sumter?Marion Moise.
Wedgefield?Fream Mellett.
Zoar?John J. Britton, Jr.
The following Clubs were not repre
sented: Bandana, Catchall, Concord,
Earle, Gaillard's X Roads, High
Hills, Mayesville, Pleasant Grove,
Providence, Rafting Creek, Shiloh
and Taylor.
The Chairman stated that the meet
ing had been called to arrange for
the county, State and Senatorial cam
paign meetings, to assess the candi
dates for county officers, to arrange a
schedule of county campaign meet
ings, and any other business that
might be brought before the commit
tee.
The Chairman read a letter from
Col. Wilie Jones, State Chairman,
stating that "at a recent meeting of
the sub-committee of the State Demo
cratic Executive Committe a resolu
tion was passed instructing me to* re
quest the County Chairmen of the
State to ask the Democrratic citizens
of the cities and towns to entertain
at their private residences the candi
dates for State and Congressional offi
ces when they go to their places to ad
dress the people." The letter gave as
a reason thai many of the candidates
were men of small means, and that it
is a great hardship on them to have
to stand such heavy expenses in the
way of hotel bills, etc. !
The suggestion did not take with
the committee at all, and on motion
the letter was received as information,
and the candidates will pay their own
way in Sumter.
Mr. W. O. Cain moved that the
County Chairman be emowered to se
cure the Opera House to hold the State
campaign meeting in. Carried.
Col. W.D. Scarborough moved that a
committee be appointed on reception of
candidates, the County Chairman to
be chairman, this committee to be
composed of members of the County
Executive Committee and citizens of
the city of Sumter. The motion was
carried and the following will com
prise the committee:
John M. Knight, H. L. B. Wells-,
Marion Moise, Richard L Manning,
T. B. Fraser, Neill O'Donnell, R. O.
Purdy, L. L Parrott, H. L. Scarbor
ough, J. Diggs Wilder, R. D. Lee, L.
D. Jennings, H. W. Scarborough, and
the members of the County Demo
cratic Executive Committee.
After some discussion it was decided
that each candidate for a connty office,
Congress and Solicitor shall pay an
assessment of 31.50 when he files his
pledge with the County Chairman.
The candidates who are successful in
the primary shall pay an additional
assessment, according to the following
schedule :
Senate?810.
House of Representatives?85 each.
County Superintendent of Educa
tion?810.
Auditor?815.
Treasurer?815.
Conuty Supervisor?815.
Congress?85.
Solicitor?85.
Magistrates, 82 each, except at Sum
ter, who shall pay 85.
The candidates shall file their
pledges and pay the preliminary assess
ments on or before the day of the first
campaign meeting.
The same rules are to be enforced
as at the last primary election, and
Magistrates in the various districts
will be chosen by the people, as has
been the custom for several elections
past.
Moved by Mr. W. H. Ingram, sec
onded by Mr. John J. Britton, Jr.,
that the managers in the primary elec
tions be paid 81.00 each for their ser
vices, this amount to be paid after
the second primary election.
Appointments for county campaign
meetings were made as follows:
Privateer, Tuesday, August 5.
Providence, Tuesday, [August 12.
Shiloh, Tuesday, August 19.
Snmter, Friday, Aug. 22nd (night)
and Saturday, August 23rd, at 11
o'clock a. m. The meeting Friday
night was fixed to give the merchants,
clerks, mechanics, &c, a chance to
hoar the candidates, and the one Sat
urday for the benefit of those from the
country who might be in rown.
Tbe matter of the revision of the
club rolls came up for discussion, and
the committee showed an anxiety to
have the rolls thoroughly purged so as
to contain only bona fide members. ?
The question of repeating was brought ;
up, and also of voting by proxy, and j
the statement was made that both"had j
occurred in this country. These are j
both violations of the statute law, and ?
the committee is determined to see j
that a stop is put to them at once.
The following resolution was offered:
Resolved, That the Secretary be re
quested to instruct the members of the"
County Executive Committee to meet
with the Presidents and Secretaries
of their respective clubs to revise the
rolls. That in order to accomplish this
work thoroughly, the clubs adjacent
and in the same localities should be
grouped together and the rolls be re
vised by the executive committeemen
and officers in conjunction. That
certified copies of these rolls and any
additions made thereto up to within
five days of the primary be sent to the
Secretary of the County Democratic^
Executive Committee on or before
Saturday, Aug. 23rd, 1902, on which
date the County Executive Committee
will meet at 9 o'clock a. m., to receive
the iolis and inspect them.
The resolution prevailed and the
clubs were grouped as follows :
1. Earle, Privateer and Manchester.
2. "Wedgefield, Stateburg and High
Hills.
3. Catchall, Providence, Gaillard's
X Roads and Scarborough.
4. Rafting Creek and Bandana.
5. Mayesville and Salem.
6. Concord and Zoar.
7. Shi loh, Taylor and Pleasant
Grove.
8. Sumter, Laborers and Mechanics,
Farmers and Bossard.
Moved and carried that the County
Chairman be empowered to appoint
managers for the primary elcetion on
the suggestion of the executive com
mittee man from each club.
There being no further business,
the committee adjourned.
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